The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-12

changed between the two men at thaht time lost their usual cor diality. It was att his time that some of Churchill's Cabinet urged him to make minor concessions at the Chicago air conference in order to avoid a deadlock with the United States. But he re- fused, and the conference ended in partial deadlock.
 Later, things drifted from bad to worse as far as British pol icy in Greece and Italy was con- cerned. So that just before his inauguration, the President became eager and restless to leave immediately for the Big Three Conference in order to solve these problems.
 In fact he was so restless that he proposed to his naval and military leaders that they de- part on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 20, just an hour or two after he was inaugurated. They re- piled that they could not possibly get the proper travelling facilities ready by that time, so in the end, the President departed a little later.
 TEXAS HUMOR
 Archibald McNeill, retired Con- necticut publisher, was telling the Mead Committe how his part ners in corporation which was set up to deal in surplus war materials had formed new or ganization which excluded Mo- Neill.
 "A new deal" prompted port ly Senator Tom COnnally, staunch champion of fellow Texan Jesse Jones, recently fired by the President.
 That's right" McNeill agreed. "A new deal, and it let me out"
 Well" said COnnally, with grin at the audience, that's no the first time tne New Deal has let people out"
 HARD BRITISH WINTER
 American householders who grumble about temperatures of 68 degrees should keep in mind conditions in London. There, luxury, hotels only are able to maintain temperatures of about 60 degrees.
 This has been one of the cOldeSt winters of the century in England and one of the most serious shortages is glass. There has not been nearly enough to replace the thousands of win- dOwS blown out by buzz-bOmbs and rockets. Cardboard and an OiIcl0th compound provided by the Government are offered as substitutes, but with 8 seri- OuS shortage of fuel, the sixth winter of war Is proving the cOldest yet to the British.
 Buzz bombs and rockets have spread the suffering in London among all classes. During the blitz, most observers had a very had ordered his bombardiers to concentrate on the east side of London, where most workers lived. He wanted to break the spirit of the British working man, they believed. But rocket bombs are not so easily controlled, with the result that their damage is fair city.
 The subwayS are still "hOme' to many thousands of Lonndoners during this extremly cold winter. There simply isn't enough hous- ing, even with the additional shelter provided by the U. s. Army.
 VICE-PRESIDENT'S AIDE
 Hard-working Harry Truman has worked out new wrinkle for vice-presidents. He now has a military aide-Col. Harry H Vaughn of Missouri.
 This Is the first time in the memory of capital observers that the Vice. President has had full-fledged commissioned Of- flee assigned to him as mili- tarY aide. other members of the Cabinet, with the excep- ton of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy,
 are not entitled to any gold braid, and flo recent vice presi- dent preceding Truman has ever objected to a secret service man