The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-28

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Austine Cassini and Bill Cunning
ham and Ernest Ltndley and nearly
all the high-powered pundits Of the
foreign press got showed up to this
second balcony and didn't like it a
bit. If they write nasty pieces about
what went on, you'll know why.
But Shucks! They should have
relaxed and enjoyed 1t. After the
proceedings got started, lot Of peo-
pie just sat down on the floor, with
their backs to the wall and they
heard everything over the loud
speakers just as well as II they had
stayed home, taken off their shoes
and listened to the radio.
Only one correspondent in the
world had better vantage point.
That was Dorothy Thompson, who
seems to be exporting this confer
ence from London. Boy, that's going
where you can get good perSpec-
tive and detached view.
But 1t was pretty detached up
there behind row last OF the Sec
ond balcony, too. Some distinguish
ed foreign-looking gent who had
come early to get good seat but
didn't, brought along book to read
while waiting for things to get
started and while an unseen band
played such inappropriate music as
Lover Come Back To Me" and
1.-The World Is Waiting For The
Sunrise The name Of this gents
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Order"
FIRST AID FOR PIONEERS
If anybody ever asks you what Is
the one book you should take along
If you were going to be stranded be-
hind row last Of the second balcony
Of San Francisco's Opera House,
tell 'em Pioneers In A New World
Order" complete with f1rst-aid kit
and snake bite remedy.
Down on the main floor they may
have been trying to do something
about the world order. but up in the
second balcony it was just pioneer
ing. Any journalist up there could
have written his story, put a head
on 1t, with Opera Glasses and
Program Through the Second Bal
cony," sealed 1t in the snake bite
remedy bottle after consuming the
contents, and cast 1t adrift in the
nearest wash room, hoping 1t would
be carried by fair wind and tide to
reach friendly shore in time for
first edition after the New World
Order gets established. II this screed
ever sees print, you'll know how it
got out.
The military police the sissies
- were all stationed down on the
main floor where they could show
of. But up on the second balcony
things were in charge Of the ladies
Of the Red Cross in gray uniforms,
and the girls Of the Junior Red
Cross in MILDLY blouses, dark skirts
and bobby socks. And they just
weren't equal to the job.
you can't stand or sit in the
aisles," they kept insisting. So the
people kept right on standing in the
aisles. And when people whose view
was cut of by the standees yelled,
Down In frontl' the people who
had been standing IN the aisles sat
in the aisles.
LITTLE MEN ON A BIG STAGE
When everybody finally got put to
his own dissatisfaction, 1t was pos
sible to climb on your own and
other peoples tiptoes, peer over a
lot Of neck napes and bald heads
and funny hats and hairdoS TO see
where all the noble words in such
dull speeches were coming from. A
kind-hearted lady loaned her opera
glasses and looking through them,
away down there about half mile
away, 1t seemed, were little men on
q great big stage.
The program said they were Sec
rotary Stettinius, Governor Warren,
Mayor Laphan and Alger Hiss. And
they probably were, but you couldn't
tell even with opera glasses from
behind row last. Anyway, the four
little men on their four mustard
colored chairs looked lost In all that
space.
The setting was real nice - blue
carpet and backdrop, four big
golden colored square columns sep
arating three banks of Is United
Nations flags, and 10 service men
and women in uniform standing be-
fore the flags. You couldn't see q
delegate any place, and the four
little men looked lonesome
Comes the New World Order, us
second balcony pioneers will have
to see to 1t things are arranged diff
ferent.
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