The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-31


 that we had sent no important emissaries to London since Harry Hopkins call on Churchill two years ago.
 However, Stettinius is on the way to turning the mission into something really important. He is scheduled to discuss five im- portant subjects with the Bri- tish. They are:
 1. Stabilization of the dollar and pound after the war.
 2. A world bank
 3. Stabilization of commodities. This would mean the application of Wallace's ever-normal granary to all basic commodities such as tin, rubber, copper, sugar, with a system of buying and selling to keep prices stabilized.
 4. Oil and the Near East. The United States wants to avoid Q cut-throat battle for oil such as occurred with Britain after the last war and which is already threatened as result of the Arabian pipeline wrangling.
 5. The future boundaries of Germany.
 German boundaries were tenta- lively discussed at Teheran. but now Dr. Isaiah Bowman, famed geographer, has accompanied Stet- tiniuS to London to talk details. Bowman wes Woodrow Wilson's geographic expert at Versailles, and some officials are critical of his chopping-up of Europe.
 This imposing agenda has irked Secretary Hull. Apparently, it was pretty well arranged while he was in Florida. Also, Hull was always jealous of the trips Sumner Welles took to Rio, Rome London aud Berlin, and now it looks as if his uew under-secre- tary might also be crowding him for the lirlelight.
 PAYING PAUL
 The other day, one of the most controversial figures in the vitri- olic tax fight quietly wrote out his resignation as counsel of the Treasury Department and stepped back into private life. He is mild hammered Randolph Paul, one Of the most unobtrusive but toughest tax experts ever to serve in Washington.
 When he came to the Treasury, Paul gave up a $20J,000 income as tax adviser to some of the big gest automobile and oil companies in the country. From the gov ernment, he got salary of $8,- 900.
 Despite his gilt-edger former tax clients, Paul was the most uncOmprOmising of all battlers against the Ruml Plan against the recent tax bill, and against every other lOOphOle for big busi- ness. Secretary MOrgentahu got the credit for being tough, but it was Paul who stiffened his backbone.
 Unlike most Treasury tax men who have gone back to New York to cash in on a bigger, better law practice, Paul is not returning to his top-bracket clients. He may don judicial robes instead. PEPPER FIGHTS ALONE
 Believe 1t or not, the COP is pouring piles of money into one campaign to elect a Democratic Senator. Actually they're not especially coEcernoa about who the Democrat is, so long as it's not Claude Pepper. They sim- ply want to lick Pepper in the Florida primary, which takes place Hay 2.
 The Pepper opposition will prob ably consolidate behind youngish Ollie Edmunds, Jacksonville judge whose chief support seems to come from the Associated Industries of Florida, the political action front of the State Chamber of Com merce. Edmunds appears to be the most likely candidate among those willing to run against Pep per. So desperate is the Flor ida hate-Roosevelt crowd for strong candidate that they even asked former Ambassador Joe Davies, whose foreign policy is an athena to them. to run against Pepper.
 In addition to the Associated
 Industries, Pepper is opposed by
 the Byrd-fOr President clubs in
 Florida and by the insurance
 companies. The insurance lobby
 here i'm Washington gave him