The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23

The boys knew how to grin and keep their chins up. even those with an arm or leg off.
 Moreover, they do lot of thinking these days about what's going to happen after this war is over, Their questions proved that. Naturally they are watch ing the war, but even more, they seemed to be watching the Snarled skeins of our diplomacy. They asked me many questions about Greece, and were intensely inter ested in the operation of our new millionaire State Department.
 It was obvious doubts had aris- en in their minds whether the peace they had been fighting for, had given their arms and legs for, would be thrown to the wolves of imperialism after the war.
 This was the biggest question in their minds.
 And one question in my mind
 when came away was whether 1t
 wouldn't be very sound idea
 to have at least one representa-
 tive of the II, 1,OOO, 900 men who
 have been fighting this war sit
 at the peace table after the war
 is over.
 After the last war we saw a group of old men, one of them nearly eighty, write peace which was torn to Shreds. Certainly the G T. Joes couldn't do any worse. And they might do a lot better. CHURCHILL'S OUT
 WORN VIEWPOINT
 Today we have seen what older men already have started to do with the peace of the world. Win ston Churchill, who is seventy, who trained in the British Army half century ago when it was mopping up the Indians in the Punjab, when 1t sent a conquer ing expedition up the Nile, and Waged war on the peaceful Dutch in South Africa, has demonstrated he cannot divorce himself from that old-fashioned philosophy. He demonstrated his philosophy when he telegraphed General Scobie to treat Athens as q conquered city"
 But there is new philosophy on the part of the men who are fighting this war, both the G. I. JoeS of this country and the Tom mics of MT. Churchill's Army. Churchill has seen wars, and fought in wars, and directed wars ever since he was 21, including the terrible massacre at Galllpoli. It is hard for him to conceive a world which might be warless. Ht cannot think along those lines. His foreign office does not even want to punish Adolf Hitler.
 Therefore, when 1t comes to
 writing the peace, let's dilute
 our elderly diplomacy with youth
 with the youths who have sac
 rificed, and who want to build
 a world in which they can live
 peacefully. don't propose dis
 carding all the wisdom of age.
 Keep some of the old men at the
 peace table, but give them the
 refreshing influence of at least
 one hard-hitting hard talking
 C. I. Joe as 8 full l-fIedged dele gate at the peace conference. GLAMOR BOY STETTINIUS
 Vivacious Ed Stettinius seems to be spending almost more time trying to butter-up his public re- lations than in being Secretary of State. He spent five days in New York recently posing for mo- tion picture on the State De- partment. He hired a hail and a brass band to introduce his new team" to the rest of State Department. He has had almost every Senator who fought con- firmation of his team down for a conference, and he is giving series of luncheOns 50 that his millionaire-assistants can meet other members of the Cabinet.
 After one such luncheon, which lasted two hours with Secretary of War Stimson and higih of- ficiais of the War Department, fortnight Undersecretary of War Patterson remarked:
 Two hours wasted which we nave to choose between discipline