The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-21


 when or fl you get all through the sl4 pages you can ask yourself the question of just how much of a dis service Mir. Wellcs has done to him self and to his country by this con. tribution and the answer is. Quite lot" In fact. there are parts of this book which will make excellent Ehzi propaganda and give consider able aid and comfort to the enemy.
 There is, for instance. an elabor- ate scheme, with a two-page map, showing how this former diplomat thinks Germany should be parti. tioned into three separate states Bavaria, Baden and the Rhineland ia a southern state, Hanover. West phalta and part of Saxony in a western state. Pomerania, Branden- burg. Silesia and the rest of Saxony in an eastern state. It is net hard to conjure the Nazi propagandists seiz- ing upon this proposal and telling the German people. just to make them fight all the harder.
 DENOUNCEs OUR SPANISH
 CIVIL WAR NEUTRALITY
 A second point in the Welles thesis which might conceivably em- barrass the government is his bit- ter denunciation of U. s. policies toward Spain. Welles declares flat ly that. "Of all our blind isolation ist policies. the most disastrous was our attitude towards the Spanish Civil War" It is his opinion that the United States should have given aid to the Spanish republic in its fight against Franco instead of de- claring strict neutrality. Welles claims that President Roosevelt was out of Washington when this policy was adopted and did not approve 1t. This is open to question as matter of record and historical fact, as Roosevelt was in Washington. knew all about it and approved It.
 The important thing, however. is that the government is now trying to win the Franco government away from Germany and over to the United Nations cause. Important negotiations with Spain concerning cir rights and trade with Germany are now underway. To have Franco blasted at this time doesn't help.
 4 third knife which Welles throws Is against the administration's policy os not recognizing the Argentine government now headed by General Farrell, This isn't news. for Welles has written pieces for the news papers to this same effect. But to show how this stuff is seized upon ard used as propaganda, 1t is only necessary to recall that the previous Welles article on this subject was ordered printed in all the Argentine press, giving encouragement to the revolutionary government of the Argentine to resist American de- mands that Axis agents be thrown out of the country and full eO-0peT- alton given to the United Nations, TELLS OF TRIP TO
 EUROPE IN l9to
 Welles as at his hest as report. er telling Of his mission to Europe f0l the President in l040. His plan for a postwar international organ ization to maintain peace differs from the Department of States proposals, but that is of no import anee as no two people can agree on hoy this should be set up,
 IL is in petty yindieiiyeness that Welles does himself least credit President Roosevelt is never erltieI2' cd, but the foreign policies of his Department 0f State, where they differ from the Welles policies, take beating. Secretary Of State C0rdell Hull Is mentioned by name only 0rae and no other official of the Department Of State Is mentioned at all, Hull is given credit for his reciprocal trade program,
 AS a f00tn0te t0 that, it should he recalled that four years ago Welles wrote the preface 10 Harold Hlns tons biography Of c0Fdell Hull That preface was filled with praise
 About the TOW which led to Wflles leaving the State Department notb' ing Is said ai all,