The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18
THE LOVE LETTERS OF A
 COLIIMNIST

&mcA ACthon DCpts 4AlS Ns T. Times published the following special cable from Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Nov. l3: ''The Argentine gov- ernment published a decrer today under which remaining Graf Spec officers and men will be subjected to stricter vigilence This meas ure is necessary not only to comply with international regulations but also because the laxity of tine sys- tenn formerly applied enaSled some to escape abroad.
 These measures were announced last Monday After the charge had been made in the United States that the Argentine government had allowed some Graf Spec internees to go abroad"
 This is the same government which a few days before denounced this columns statements as bar barrie and absurd"
 The United Press teletypes car- ried the following: "Buenos Aires, Nov. B: A leading Argentine pro- Fascist newspaper today called col- umnist Walter Winchell 'one of the bloodiest enemies of Argentina and charged Winchell with suggesting that the United States declare war on Argentina This mercenary of the pen, serving the Interna- ltional Jewish plutocracy, continu- ally publishes articles violently in- furious to our country. The U. 5. ~rVIai inIA i- ryvSloV~ %nn nyNnre- Inf the American State Department, is engaging in systematic campaign to discredit our country. Not all the people in the U. $. Look with benevolence at the extorsive meth ods used to try to make us aban- don our uncompromising doctrine" :"
 People, they mean, like Senator Reynolds and other assolationists.
 Walter Winchell says Harry Won Tilzer gave Tin Pan Alley its name. will wager Walter an evening meal at MT. Billingsley's Stork that Tin Pan Alley was SO called for the first time by a man named Rosenfeld in a newspaper article."-E. V. Curling in the New York Journal Ameri- can.
 (Mr. Ven Tilzer in letter to MT. Curling offered to bet him S100 as a gift to any charity that he is mls- informed. That he did create 1t and gave it to MT. Rosenfeld for an article. And after proving same to 2Oth Century-Fox Films was paid for it as a movie title.)
 Alan Hynd's new thriller was pulp lished on the 18th by Mcbride. The title of the book is Betrayal from the East" an expose of Japanese spies (and their American helpers) over here before Pearl Harbor. MT. Hynd's recent Passport to Treason" is still selling big .. It ripped the masls from the Nazis over here and their American supporters .... We had forgotten brief item we ran shortly before Pearl Harbor until Betrayal from the East" came to our desk On Page 265 we found the following reminder:
 "Reinhardt, determined, brought out the records. Membership cards each year were numbered consecu- lively ... For more than ten years, no white correspondent had ever he'd as low numbered card as any Japanese. lack-and-white proof that every one of the Japanese mem- bers (of Foreign Press Ass'n) had always paid up before the first white member shelled out. Yet the Wash ington officials saw no significance in this unexplained reversal Of long standing Japanese behavior.
 Back in New York, at the Stork Club (where many an event of 1n- ternational significance is planned) Reinhardt ran into slim man With prematurely gray hair = Walter Winchell - just returning from his futile trip to Washington Say, Gunther,' said Winchell, what's this I hear about the Japs at the Foreign Press Association being behind in their dues?' Where Winchell had received the tip Reinhardt didn'. know, and he didn't ask.
 "They drank coffee until early morning. Winchell was busy jot- ting down notes. He could hardly believe what Reinharot was telling him. "You're sure Of your facts?' he kept repeating. You're abso- lutely sure of your facts?' (. . Even