The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-27

Both are brotherS-in-law o U. s. A., but scarcely spoke
 Even Madame Ci1iang, when she came here last year, saw her brother, T. V. Soong, only briefly. But smart T. V. Soong returned to China. got back in the good graces of brother-in-law Chiang, while his sister, the Generalis- simo's wife, now not in her hus- bands good graces, departed =. Such is Chinese politics.
 Lieut.. General Mark CIark's daughter Ann sent a letter to her papa in Italy the other day addressed in a unique way. She merely drew her fathers profile on the envelope under the word ''TO". Under the picture of her Dad, she wrote the word At" and then drew the Fifth Army shield. There was no name or address, but the letter reached General Clark pronto . Bete nOir Sidney Hillman, who sent shivers down Hannegan's spine, but got out the vote, will leave for London shortly to help set up the world labor conference. R. J. Thomas of the CIO auto workers, and Emil Rieve of the CIO textile union, will go with him. That's why the AFL is playing aloof from London.
 Fiery Fiorella La Guardia is baking about going to Italy be- cause Brass Hats in the War De- partment won't give him author ity. Says the Little Flower: Either you're allowed to do some thing or you're not. And I'm not going to Italy to sit on my fanny .. One off -the-record remark of Winston Churchill's never be- fore published can now see the light of cold print. In 1940, as France fell and Britain's back was to the wall, he told Parliament how, if the Nazi hordes stormed English beaches, the British army would beat them off to the last man. During subsequent applause, Churchill leaned over to Anthony Eden and said sotto voce: But I don't know what in hell we're going to do it with. We're going to have to hiti the buggers over the head with bottles" ... AL though the world didn't know it, Roosevelt jumped in, emptied U. S. arsenals, sent everything to England Another Churchill off-the-record remark which Presidential aides are still chuck ling over was when FDR went into Churchill's room ill the White House one morning and found him walking up and down the room, dictating to a secretary cigar in mouth, but not a stitch of clothing on except bedroom slippers. Churchill, unabaShed, remarked: "I have nothing to conceal, MT. President"
 Western War Notes. Decision for the present big push against Germany was made by General Marshall when he conferred with Eisenhower in France. Marshall made the final decision, figured we had one last chance to break Germany before January l. After that date, the fighting will be more difficult Also, by spring, when the ground thaws, Hitler will have had time to train a million fresh troops. They are not high-quality manpower, but they could help prolong the war. At present, Hitler is just about out of reserves .. When the U. s. Third Army takes the Saar basin with its rich coal mines, a partial load will be taken off U. s. industry. WIPE experts figure that Saar coal going to French fac tories will mean we won't have to export so much to France.
 Navy-MacArthur feuding has broken out all over again. It was bad during the early stages of the war two years ago, but was patched up Admiral Nimitz and Macarthur personally Now Macarthur blames the Navy for letting Jap troops sneak ashore on Leyte, while the Navy planes .Dug-out Doug" for jumping the gun with far too optomistic com muniques .. Also, they point out that the Japs have built about 100 air bases on nearby islands and it's tough far carrier-based planes to complete with land-baSed planes. If Doug had built as many air bases as the Japs when he commanded the Philippines be- fore P.arl Harbor, the Navy claims 1t might not now be necessary to retake the Philippines. With MacArthaif the boss nan in the Philippine theaters the Navy has coined q new twist to the COPS 4Nli1strr,.l 9l m .,c. ltr, sIraal1 Tn tna