The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22

cables regarding Greece, after this column published the text of the Prime Ministers cable to General Scobic to treat Athens as "a conquered city" Sir William Matthews is Governor Lehman's chief of UNRRA in Greece and the Balkans. He is so resented by American UNRRA workers that they signed a long statement protesting aganist his operations.
 DEMOCRATIC JOE STILWELL
 Gen. Joe Stilwell has always rated high with his men. Now that he's stationed in Washington as Chief of the Army Ground Forces he still has the reputation ot looking out for them.
 The other day, Washington realtor Colonel Gus Ring who is used to getting phone calls from ali sorts of important apartment hunters, was surprised to find General Stilwell walk into his of flee and ask for an apartment. Stilwell didn't want the apart ment for himself, but had trav- eled all the way across Washing ton to try to get an apartment for the widow of one of Still wells junior officers who had bene killed in action.
 NOTE: He got the apartment. CAPITOL CHAFF
 The WIPE will crack down soon on the use of tubes for civilian toothpaste consumption because of a new lead shortage The Army has developed a poison gas so powerful it can even destroy a gas mask .. Congressman Vito Marcantonio plans to introduce a resolution soon for another all- out investigation of the New York Stock Exchange Ambassador to China Pat Hurley raised Holy Ned'' with the State Department after he was ordered not to wear his Army uniform in China Hurley, who as Secretary of War posed before a mirror before tor- nal receptions, wanted to wear his uniform in China, featuring six rows of campaign decorations on his breast New York'S bouncy Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia occa- sionally sneaks into the Senate gallery, watches the floor de- bates with an envious eye, hopes to be in the Senate in 1946 =. Army officers assigned to inves- tigate the population of con- quered German cities, give top priority to the eight American QuislingS, including poet Ezra Pound and former correspondent Bob Best, who have been broad casting for the Nazis.
 FUTURE OF WAR CONTROLS?
 They're not talking much about it, but Administration leaders are worried sick over the plan of Con- gressional Republicans to scuttle all wartime controls as soon as Germany falls. If the COP can hold its own strength and pick up a few dozen diSsident democratic votes, they might be able to knock out the war checks against. tnfla- tion, the rationing program and other war measures which the White House feels are needed at least until Japan is defeated perhaps longer.
 Roosevelt leaders know that
 House Minority Leader Joe Mar
 tin has told newsmen that VE-
 Day is D-Day for the Repub-
 licans. And last week Repub-
 ncans forced the House to amend the Lend-Lease Act to
 forbid Lend-Iease to aid in the rehabilitation of Europe; while
 Republican members of the
 House Banking and Currency
 Committee are fiHbustering the hearings on the Breton Woods Agreement.
 That is why the democratic leadership, although it has what looks on paper like comfortable majority in both Houses, is work ing night and day to keep all members in line. Its job on the Lend Lease Extension Vote gave the first indication that 1t might succeed-only one Democrat voted Compton White of Idaho.
 But they know that the Re- publican ranks also are being