The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08

public interested in what is hap pening behind closed doors in the White House if he is not even able to interest his own daugh- ter2 I am afraid my editors will reduce my salary. So for the sake of thy father, thee will really have to study current events.
 wonder if thy teacher has been telling the class about the very important shakeup which is now taking place among the men who run ourt foreign affairS--the State Department. I wonder also if she is teaching the class about what is happening in Italy and Belgium and Greece, where the British are trying to tell the peo- pies of those countries what kind of governments they should have.
 These things are most import ant. For upon what we do to-
 lay depends in large part whether thy future husband and thy future sons will have to go out and fight another war 20 years from now.
 We have just reelected Presi- dent Roosevelt for an epoch-mak- ing number of years - largely, think, because great many peo- pie felt he could build perman- ent peace. So he has a great obligation to fulfill, and he has now put some men in the State Department to conduct our foreign relations. These men, perhaps even more than President Roosevelt, are going to shape the future peace of the world.
 THREE OF A KIND
 was wondering the other evening what would happen if the son of John L. Lewis were appointed Assistant Secretary of State. Young John went to a fine private school in Virginia and later to Princeton. He has an excellent educational back ground and stood at the top of his class. But I know what a hue and cry would go up from the Senate and the country if he were given key job in running our foreign relations.
 wondered also what would happen if, in addition to young John L. Lewis, Jr., the son of Phil Murray, head of the CIO, plus the son of Matt Woll, vice. president of the AFL, were ap- pointed to high positions in the State Department. There would be more yelling in the Senate than at a hockey game at Miss Gin's School-and rightly so.
 Yet President Roosevelt has just appointed the grandson of John D. Rockefeller, ST., plus the son of J. P. Morgan, to run that branch of the Government upon which depends whether or not we will have to fight another war.
 If old John D. Rockefeller, ST., were alive today, would trust him more than his grand children to run our foreign af- fairs. He was tough, shrewd, and would never have let any foreign diplomats take away our shirt.
 Or I would even trust John L. Lewis more than his son to handle our international negotiations, Lewis is a real negotiator. He has built up his union with the some hard-boiled, selfish tactics of John D. Rockefeller. He gets what he wants.
 But actually, I don't believe that we have to call upon predatory old birds like then elder Rockefel- Ter or Lewis, or their inexperi- enced children, to run our foreign affairs. And especially I don't think that, out of 130,00O, ,O00 peo- pie, it is wise to pick two off, springs of the House of Morgan and one offspring of the House Of Rockefeller to be Secretary ot State, Undersecretary and Assist ant secretary - any more than it would be wise to put three sons of labor leaders in the State Depart ment.
 One of them wouldn't hurt. But when you stack thre of kind in a row, plus another courteous gentleman, Will Clayton, who con- trolS two-thirds of the countrys cotton, then our foreign relations are likely to get out of focus.
 JOE CREWS BACKGROUND
 Take, for instance, the new Un- dersecretary Joseph c. Grew. l knew him quite well when he was Undersecretary of State under Frank B. Kellogg. MT. Grew is blessed with infinite charm, love- ly children and a great deal of money from his relatives, the J. P. Morgans. His daughters have married diplomats, one of them a very able diplomat who was also & Morgan relative. It's like the principle followed by John L. LewiS-a closed shop.
 But despite his charm, Joe Grew got MT. Kellogg into more hot water in Mexico and Nic- aragua than the State Depart ment had seeni years. Finally the career clique promoted themselves into diplomatic posts abroad, and Grew became Am baSsadOr to Turkey.
 There he did an excellent job. His tact, his wherewithal to give fine parties made him most popu- lar. And he was a much better observer abroad than he was an executive at home, for he had never been trained as an execu- ktttA la nl. T