The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20

| NAoAAS. AOOh hhotS happening VO Truman!"
 Joe Latin reports that reporters at Bikini were questioning an Army It. about what weapons would. be used in the next war.
 q dunno" he said, but in the war after the next war, sure as Hell, they'll be using spearS!'
 Helen Frazer, the Barbizon model chief, was week-ending at a West chester place where nose-in-the- air Britisher was inspecting the furniture. T notice" he noticed, this piece comes from England" ''Hmf," hmf'd Helen, we got the whole country from England"
 "The only thing left to strike" says Jan Murray, lis lightning"
 The deep peril of tossing a red herring at everyone who diSagrees with you is emphasized by the Greek crisis. A New York reporter in Greece informed: ''The Greek Governments army and gendarmes are waging a pitileSs war on scores of thousands of women and chil- dren in 8 desperate effort to halt growing rebellion anl wipe out not only Communists, but all demo- cratic, liberal and republican ele- mentS" The article further states that the Greek Governments defin- ition of a Communist is anyone who criticizes it.
 Among the Americans who cried Communist" at anyone who dis agreed with them are Rankin, Bilbo, Fish, Nye, Wheeler, Dilling, Smith and Kuhn.
 The office of The Magnificent Pemberton was burgled shortly af- ter he cancelled the premiere here of his latest out of town flop.
 The angles" trying to get their money back?
 NEG fired commentator be- cause he criticized Rankin. We never heard of any network firing neWscaSter because he criticized FDR or any other American Presi- dent.
 Making sacred COW out of a Trojan Horse.
 The White House is spreading Happiness to the Germans in Ger many and to the Republicans in America.
 Freeman Chum, Chinese sage writes: T received terrific bang out of Italy getting all overwrought over the Russian slur to Italian fighting valor. recall back in 1940 and 1941 (when Il Duce was the big spaghetti there and Virginia Gayda his cheese) the remarks passed about the fighting ability of the Americans. Particularly vivid are these by the Duce: Americans are no fighters. They are race of playboys. They are better off in nightclubs. Their army is a poke These and others of even less com plimentary nature were received with great glee and mirth by the Duce's mobS."
 Our foreign policy is about as clear as the mud diplomats have been throwing at each other.
 Too many American leaedrs are arguing about our foreign policy when they should be explaining It.
 After reporting that MT. Win chell is a shrewd cookie, with a superb journalistic sense of what can be made of what" colyumist Sam Grafton adds that Walter Lippmann's (antD attitude toward Russia is very different from that of MT. Winchell, which must be surprise to both men; and in both lines there is a dedication to the doctrine of two words"
 Our reports and broadcasts cer- tify that this reporter continually upheld the ideal of One World, And we attacked those who are undermining that ideal But |idealism and realism seldom go hand in hand. If One World is impos- sible to attain at the present time it is worth striving for methods that can make two worlds live in peace. It is better to have two worlds trying to get along together than One Atomic World War.
 Cocky G. B. Shaw once publicly deprecated himself. He informed a reporter: Tn moments of crisis my nerves act in the most eXtraordin- ary way. I size up the situation in flash, set my teeth, contract my muscles take a firm grip on my self, and without tremor, al- ways do the wrong thing"
 Frank Sullivan tells about the 1 time colyumiSt Don Marquis fell off the wagon, advanced to the bar triumphantly and ejaculated: Boys, I've conquered that gahdamn will power of mine!"
 Dear w. w.: agree with your ever lovin' pal, who has an interest ing observation about Henry Wal lace. He notes that Wallace has all the dictator qualifications of Huey Long and Adolf Hitler, because all three have similar hair styles dang ling over their foreheads.-G. N.
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