The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24

country, UNRRA has only just been able to start workers and re- lief toward that war-torn country.
 It was last summer that the Lublin Government asked that UNRRA send a mission to help Poland. Governor Lehman's of- flee immediately drafted reply But the U. s. Office of Censor ship stepped in and said that the reply could not be sent to the Lublin Government by uncoded radio because it involved infor- nation regarding the movement of supply ships and personnel.
 Whereupon Gov. Lehman,s of flee asked the State Department to send the message in code to the American Embassy in Moscow, which in turn was to ask the Rus sian Foreign Office to deliver the message to the Lublin Poles.
 The State Department and the Embassy in Moscow were glad to comply and the message was passed on to the Soviet Foreign Office. Several weeks passed, and Gov. Lehman assumed that the mes- sage had been delivered.
 Then, suddenly, the Soviet
 Foreign Office, in rather an
 aggrieved manner, returned the
 message saying that it could not
 deliver 1t to the Lublin Govern
 ment. The Lublin Poles, it was
 explained, were a separate gov-
 ernment and no part of Mos
 COW. Therefore, the SOviets
 said, Governor Lehman should
 communicate with them direct. MOSCOW SAYS NO
 This of course, was exactly what Governor Lehman had tried to do, but had been barred by the U. s. censor.
 In the interim, Lehman had troubles with Moscow regarding the question of sending UNRRA workers into Poland to distribute supplies. To try to iron out these difficulties, Lehman proposed go- ing personally to Moscow to con- fer with Stalin. For time he thought this was all set.
 Then, suddenly, at the Mon
 treal UNRRA Conference Last
 Fall, Soviet delegate Vasili Ser
 geev got up and announced
 bluntIy and publicly that Leh-
 man couldn't SO to Moscow.
 Under UNRRA rules, its own international workers must dis tribute relief in each country and nationals of that country are not to be in charge. However, the Russians have bene suSpici- ous that UNRRA workers were disguised intelligence agents, and their suspicious were heightened by the way Col. L. F. R. Shep- herd operated for British Intelli- gence in Greece under the guise of an UNRRA workers.
 Despite rebuffs, Governor Leh- man kept on patiently pushing aid for Poland and now his eff forts have succeeded. Since the Yalta Conference ironed out the status of the Luhlin Poles, Rus sia has consented to have UNRRA workers go to Poland, and supply ships have already departed. WHO'S A LIAR?
 Senator Bushfield, South Da- kota Republican, recently rose on the Senate floor and called this columnist various brands of liar because he reported that the du- Fonts, the Melons, and the Pews of Pennsylvania had contributed heavily to the senator's 1940 elec- ton campaign.
 If the Senator wanted to in- dulge in name-calling incident- ally he wasn't very original in his epithets) he might also have included COP Treasurer w. H. Burke of Pierre, s. D., who filed sworn statement on campaign contributions with the Secretary of State of South Dakota. They included: L.ammot duPOnt, $4,OOO; Irenee duPOnt, $2,5O0; AL fred Sloan, $2,5O0; Donald Brown (duPOnt 5000; Ailsa Mellon, $5,- GOO; Sarah Mellon Scaife, $4,OOO;