The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-16

the San Francisco conference was revealing. The ones who were throwing it down aiming for the Gerald L. K. Smith ct al reader ship have had something funny hap pen to them. Their scrivenings all sounded like the yammerings of Gerald himself. That's what you get hanging out with the lunatic fringe. You catch it.
 One of the dissenters is an imi- tation hard guy. He has been lad .ling it out in a pathetically bad imitation of the Mencken of the twenties. He has even goniffed a few of Mencken's phrases and all the names Henry called Wilson. A colleague said of the cracked mir TOT: Its not surprising that he uses 20-year old style. He needs it to keep step with his 20-year- behind thinking"
 GOebbels, another NaZi, who com- pleted life of cheating by cheating the hangman, is mentioned by the press as a brilliant propagandist. How? Hitler tanned the press into printing everything Goebbels fed it, The editors could print it or lose head under an ax. The radio was controlled, and the German who spoke out loud to doubt Goebbels saw his family imprisoned or mur- dered for his offense. It is Signi- ficant that the people in this coun- try who were sold by Goebbels have been similarly sold by every other phony. In short, Goebbels was a WOW with unresisting fools.
 It might be a good idea to men, tion here some of the big-mouths who bet on Der Fuehrer: Lord Flaw flaw, Ezra Pound, Paul Revere" !" Bob Best and the Anderson dame from here who prepped for be- trayal in Spain.
 As far as I've read, none of the neutral countries which scurr1ed around to the German Embassy to deposit condolences for Hitler, was in any great hurry to express of- ficial grief for the death of FDR. If I'm wrong, I'd like to know.
 One reporter at the conference, after hearing some of his col leagues grumble about being unable to get a word with Molotov, kidded them: Funny you guys should be chasing him. I gathered from your writings that he spent every night under your bed"
 The treaty signeTs for the Ger man commander in Italy turned up for the surrender in snappy sports coats. The most military people on earth, sticklers for pro- tocol, all of a sudden say bashfully: "Aw, let's make it informal"
 Is there anybody now who wants to claim that Hess was crazy to run away to England?
 Ribbentrop, the champagne hust- Ter who blew himself to an aris- tocratic von when he got into the money, got the first boot when Doe nitz de-ratted the govt. That von. will look nice on the scaffold.
 There's 8 lot of justice in the finish of Laval. It's just dandy that the French Quisling should trap himself in Spain. That's the nation supposedly put in the bag by Nal-Fascist arms, to which La val trusted his treacherous hide. Hitler offered him protection when he sold out France. Soon Germany was as dangerous to Laval as his own country. Switzerland spat him out, SO did Luxemburg. Sen- fenced to diei by French court, Laval had an even stiffer sentence imposed by himself. That was, what to do with himself. There's a man who put coin nd power above freedom and lived too long for free- com above all things-freedom to move, to live, to find place to rest his tired, frightened heart. La- vaTs tragedy is not that of a man without a country-but of a man with too damned many of them.