The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03

They plan to call as witnesses Admiral Husband E. Kimmell and General Walter c. Short, who were retired after the Pearl Har- Dor attack.
 One of the conspiracy" charg- es against the B defendants is that they circulated literature try ing to fix the blame for Pearl Harbor on the President. It was claimed in publications put out by Mrs. Dilling and others under indictment that the Presi- dent and his War and Navy Sec retarieS '.inviteH the attack" by the Japs by failing to prepare our defenses at Pearl Harbor.
 The indictment returned by the Grand Jury charged that the defendants were not motivaSed by patriotic ideals in making such charges and the record of the Grand Jury proceeding leaves little doubt about this.
 However, some people feel that Kimmel and Short weren't en- tirely to blame for the Pearl Harbor tragedy, but were made the goats. So far, they have been denied a court martial. Therefore, it will be an odd quirk of fate if they are given their first chance to talk of a sedition trial. Lawyers for Mrs. billing ct al. have every intention of calling them.
 James J. Laughlin, Washington attorney engaged by defendant Smythe, author of a publication called Our Common Cause" de- clared in reply to questions:
 You're darned right I plan to call Kimmel and Short to
 the stand, although don't know that they will be allowed to testify. They may be shut up. However, if this happens, I'll demand a recess of the trial. Under the Constitution, we have every right to demand to hear the full story of the Pearl HarbOr disaster from Kimmel and Short in open court"
 If you can get Bolivian Gen. eral David Zorro, now in Wash ington, to talk, you can under stand why we were caught by surprise by the Bolivian revolu- tion. He says, with a flash of the eye, that the coup would never have taken place If the United States had had a better Ambassador on the scene.
 According to Zorro, the U. s. Embassy in La Paz has a num- Der of wide-awake officers, but they have been prevented by Ambassador Pierre Boal from making the necessary contacts to keep well informed. And Boal himself is so punctilious and pro- tocol-minded that he can't stoop far enough to get his ear to the ground.
 Boal has now been recalled in what appears to be slap at the new Bolivian government. Ac- tually, the recall is a slap at Boal himself.
 BIG BUSINESS
 EYES EUROPE
 Here is the inside story of how big business is watching the ad- vance of the Allied armies in or der to restore foreign invest ments and industrial operations as soon as possible.
 Thus far, progress has been rather disappointing. However, the National Foreign Trade Coun- Gil, in New York, set up a com mittee to pave the way for the return of General Motors, Stand ard Oil and kindred companies to Europe.
 They realized that their first job was to get a free hand from the U. s. Government, and if possible, place them- selves just one step behind AMG (Allied Military Govern ment in liberated areas. Then they could jump right in to rehabilitate factories and re-es- tablish banking connections in the Old World.
 Several months ago, Eugene Thomas. head of the Foreign Trade Council, and former vice president of U. s. Steel, picked oil man Jimmy Moffett, friend of the President and former head of the Federal Housing, to head the committee formed for this purpose. Thomas felt that Moi fett could open doors in Wash