The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-19
TALES OF THE TOWN

U. 6. officials ought to be ad- vised that although the govt has done . good job in tracking down Individuals and groups trying to sthvert our war effort and our De- sionists of the Smith-Dilling type ..democracy-when 1t comes to divi- sionists of the Smith-Dilling type Lit has been very slow on the take. All they have received thus far is . gentle tap on the wrist .. Apro- pos of this is the biting note re- gently penned by an irate citizen:
 "The drawl with which our legal authorities have treated anti-Ameri- can clements is enough to try the patience of saint! Why ridicule the coddling of Naz criminals abroad when there are so many 'pro-Nazis' being coddled at home? Why do we continue treating them like wayward children? The next time one of them is uncovered com hitting some crime against America n expect some official to gently chide him, saying, Naughty, naughty; If you don't stop, Uncle . Sam will have to take away your rattle
 Major Gen. Anthony McAuliffe
 (whose reply to German ultima
 tum to surrender at Bostogne made military history admitted to news men on his arrival at LaGuardia Field that he did send the famous pne-word answer to the Nazis But the inside story of what really happened is said to be this: "One word out of you" the Nazi comman- der threatened McAuliffe, land we'll
 blsat you to bits! So, if you are
 wise, you will surrender immedi-
 ately." But the American shouted,
 the unexpected. Roosevelt" he
 cried, and the Nazis cringed It was the one word that had al-
 ways beaten them.
 Frau Hess (wife of Rudolf, asked { by 6 London scribe why her hus- band flew to Britain-gave the fa- miliar reply: Tt was an indepen- dent attempt to save Europe from Bolshevism, which is the end of everything we like and love, the end of German culture in Europe The NaI Culture" always spelled
 with a capital e., Frau Hess, like
 Concentration Camp. Capital Pun
 ishment and Crematorium?
 Henry J. Kaiser recently held
 confab with proxy R. J. Thomas of
 the Auto Workers Union The latter pleaded with the ship-builder
 to turn his hand to the mass manu- facturer of low priced cars to meet { the public purse and taste |. 7 Kaiser was hesitant, feeling that ob- , stacles were many, even though z he's been experimenting with gas- buggies But Thomas persisted
 pointing out that workers would be
 available-hundreds having been
 laid off at airplane plants.
 But how about the engineers?"
 asked Kaiser. We need first-class
 men. Where are we going to get
 them?"
 Don't worry urged Thomas.
 @DeGoit's full of them. You believe In O million postwar jobs, and so do ve. Wen get you the manpower You just give us the horsepower and hoese-seneel"
 ! Xlhak recalk . similar story of the historic Teheran. Conference. i. Hitler can't win," said Stalin to IDR, If you furnish the horsepow-
 er-because we have the manpow-
 er."
 0vol = the Za11uck Zoo the other . luneheon-time, Colonel Zanuck set
 forth one of those incidents indi-
 eating that not all of Hollywood
 is devoid of charm and good taste
 Somerset Vaughan, in Holly
 wood to help supervise 20th's yer . sion of his best-seller, '"The Razor s , Edge" reviewed the script of La- mar Trotti. who adapted it ,. The studio and Trotti were extremely defefential to MT. Maugham's views |. After a Maugham-Trotti story
 conference, Zanuck asked Vaughan -'How do you think 1t is going?' [ "Au right" said the soft-spoken
 Vaughan, except MT. Trotti has i, more respect for Somerset Maug-
 hams writings than have!" At tlae same luncheon Gene Fow- 1 Bw. who is as brilliant a conver- | eationaliSt as he Is writer, was 1 told by MT. zanuck that MT. Maug- ham was accepting no compensation ,, for the supervision-other than the E 1260, 900 fee for the story. .b By sad! Fowler clowned: The
 mant traitor!'
 A preacher friend probably has the correct answer to the latest { Htlerian mystery tale. After read
 ing the statement by the Russians that Der Fuehrer may have taken
 along his sweetheart, Eva Braun Wherever he went), we speculated nn the remark made by A. Vishin- sIy (Zhukovs aide) that the inter-
 esting question is whether she's a
 boy or a girl. Anything could be
 oMpected from Hitler.''
 That's an interesting theory" commented our friend, the preach
 0, "even though Vishinsky made 1t h jest. But I feel sure that Eva
 Braun 16 girl"
 ~How conner" he was asked. 7 well" replied the churchman. ~doesn't the Bible tell us that it s MAa . snake who tempted Eve?" Tws subwayites were digesting the
 VT news. Gee, Marge," said one, T see where Gen Zhukov thinks that Hitler may have escaped to spain"
 Yeah" muttered her friend, T