The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-21

They regard this an an attempt to get Marshall out of the picture as far as the Burma, Italian and South Pacific campaigns are con- cerned. For when he loses the key lsDst of Chief of Staff and be- comes Commander r-in- Chief in Western Europe, he will be in charge of only that one operation, cannot supervise the entire American Army on all fronts.
 Friends of Gen. Marshall are indignant over his forthcoming transfer, and he himself is none too happy. Senatorial friends attribute the shift to the British, who are reported to have had some stiff alterations with Mar shall over Q Western Front.
 Gen. Marshall long has thought that the quickest way to Berlin was across the English Channel, while Churchill has publicly fac- ored the "soft -underbelly" ap- preach via North Africa and Italy.
 Senators and COngressmen
 who oppose Gen. Marshalps
 transfer are among those who
 who have supported ROOsevelt's
 Nwar and foreign policies most
 vigorously and believe they have
 . right to be heard now. If they
 fail to make an impression on
 Secretary StimSon they may in-
 troduce legislation to make
 Marshall Chief of the Armies, a
 title still nOmlnally held by
 Pershing, and which would
 make Marshall supreme over
 every other American officer.
 NOTE: Gen. Marshall has rec commended Gen Eisenhower to re- place him as chier of staff. How ever, Gen. B. B. Somervell, Arm supply officer, is an old friend of Harry Hopkins.
 QUEZON ON THE JOB
 It's bad news for the Japs that President Quezon of the Philip pines Is back in Washington. They knew - though 1t was not gen. erally realized in Washington - that Quezon had suffered a re- lapse of his old illness, tubercu- losis, which has plagued him off and on for 20 years.
 Quezon was a well man at the time of Pearl Harbor. But con- finement in the dampness of Corregidor, during the Jap attack, brought the illness back again. That was one reason Macarthur urged him to return to the U. S. in a submarine. When he anne to Washington, Quezon was ad- vised to take things easy. h. stead he rushed into the official activities of Philippine Common wealth affairs, not sparing him. self.
 His physicians advised him not to remain in Washington during the summer of 1942, nor last win- ter. But he remained neverthe- less. Result was that last spring he suffered a further replase.
 Specialists were summoned, and Quezon was given the stern ad- vice that he would have to get out of the humid climate of Washington immediately, If he wanted to live. Yielding to pres sure, he went to Saranac, N. Y, and submitted himself to a rigid discipline during most of the past Summber.
 Quezon left the life of an in- valid, sitting in the sunshine in a wheelchair, listening to the radio, or to his nurses as they read to him. Result of this regime was that the tuberculosis was arrest- ed and Quezon gained l2 lbs.
 When the Japs heard of his re. lapse, they were ready to say to the people of the Philippines. where Quezon is still highly popu- lar. Look, this is the skeleton you pin your hopes to-"
 But today, Quezon is back on his feet and back at his desk, still hoping to realize his one great ambition, to see U. s. and Philip pine forces march into Manila. BALDWIN WANTS TO KNOW
 When Jim LeCron resigned from the Rockefeller office with a blast at the State Department, he received a telephone call from his old friend. Calvin B. Baldwin, who on the same day. had been appointed by the State Depart . ent as Economic Boss .or italy. Both men were Henry Wallace nr0teQeg and ion0-tlnaa fpiagaAn