The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-18

Ae ene Tall or france In lS4V, | lt was reported to No. 10 Downing | street that the French cabinet was considering terms of equalization | A terrible storm was raging | outside ;. The British cabinet felt | that Churchill should go to the | French meeting, but after much de- | bate they decided the weather was too rough for him to fly Mrs. | Churchill, who was present, asked: | sIs the RAF up?" She was told | that only few fighter pilots were mp in the hurricane Well, then," she said, "the Prime Min | lister will fly" And he did.
 There's been considerable Specula- | lation over the Presidents address | before CongreSS-aS to whether it | Indicated his veering to the Left and stay Left :. Or whether Demo- lcrat- Conservatives would persuade l shiIn to switch over to the Right. Some believe Truman follows F'DR's | slittle left of center.
 x It reminds us of the White House | aide, who, when newsmen asked | him where Roosevelt stood" re- pleid. T know that when FDR | Stands up at the plate in Congress and bats 'em out he usually stands | on the right side. But I'm certain | of one thing. When FDR pitches for The People-he throws with the | arm on the side nearest his heart!"
 Then there's the one about the Brass Hat who fought the entire war from his Washington swivel chair. He was released the other day, and his friends had to teach him how to walk all over again!
 Lawrence H. Singer reminds us of | the time millionaire Otto H. Kahn | had 8 weakness for backing radi- | cal theatrical enterprises .. About | 1 years ago Kahn financed series | of projects down at the old Cherry | Lane Theater in Greenwich Vil- lage One of the plays was a vicious attack on big business and bankers .. During intermission re- Treatments were served to the audi | ef1ce The late Percy Ham, l mond, in reviewing the flop, noted: ~Lollipops were distributed between the acts; the biggest sucker was Otto Kahn" FWilliam S. Gilbert, the MT. Words of the Gilbert and Sullivan team, was once asked if he had recently seen much of certain actress. Not lnuch," said Gilbert. "Only her face and hands!'
 When GOering was interviewed recently at Nurenburg by an FBI agent from Washington he said: We were failure at espionage and sabotage in the U. s. because of your damned G-men. But we got all the information we needed from some of your magazines and news papersI"
 Those whom the shoes fit may now take their little bows.
 Speaking of the isOlatiOnists, cOm- mentatOr Bill Stern deScribde one of them last night this way: You know his type. He's the kind of a guy who wOrshipS the ground his heads in."
 Add Inconsistency: Big business 4pokesmen want higher prices, which will cause such imitation the dollar will buy less At the same time they argue that giving an unemployed man $25 week for relief will make him too lazy to seek work Now just how much subsistence (for an average family) will $25 per week buy in an in- Hated market? Luke Seller ob serves that it is about time we started treating Japan as though that nation were arrested for hit and-run-driving and not just park ing on the wrong side of the street
 . The right way for the Allies to conduct the war criminal trials Is to hold the high Japs and Nazis guilty until proven guiltier.
 Now that the war is over, Labor and Industry are again at each others throats. Proving that the conflict that never ends - is the one over your dollar We wish the Govt would stop carrying law violating executives out through their office buildings when they should be thrown out the window.
 According to various reports, Hit Ter is in Japan-in Argentina and also in Sweden.
 To which I. Elinson observes: ''1f one of our bombs hit him, it is pos eible he's in ell three places!"
 Notes on the Deportation of Fritz Kuhn: He is on boat headed for Germany. Too bad he isn't accom- panied by Joe McWilliams, Lizzie Dilling, Edward James Smythe, Ger aid L. K. Smith and the others who were in the same boat with him Kuhn was denaturalized and deported = but there is no inven- tion to delouse him He sailed on the S. s. Winchester Victory the only boat with a name close enough to that of the columnist who first exposed his activities here in 1883 '. He was arrested for prac- tically splitting on the sidewalk when he should have been shot for trea- son The lucky rat! He is ON the incheSter-instead of having one AIMED at him.
 Frank Webb on the staff of an American newspaper in Paris tells of that gazette's colorful Tex o. -