The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-29

Washington, D. C.. Oct. 29-There
 are people in Washington who. hay
 ing looked over the Department of
 State as now constituted and the
 American delegation to the conference,
 for the Limitation of Armaments, be-
 lieve that the era of shortsleeve diplo-
 macy has gone forever.
 No one, for example, would regard
 Charles Evans Hughes as a shirt sleeve diplomat. He is a, man of i'm
 peccable manners, who has a just
 conception of the proper dignity that
 should hedge a Secretary of State. The
 fact is, of course, that our Secretaries of State, as our President, have always or almost always-manage to rise
 to meet the demands of their office.
 Not that there is any question of MT.
 Hughes's extreme fitness for this post,
 but one would not have to go back
 very far into American history to dis
 cover one or two secretaries whose
 rising was not conspicuous and whose shfrtsleeves were 0 good deal in eV1d- ence.
 When the Conference for the Limi-
 tation of Armaments meets and Wash ington is full or Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers, princes, field-mar- shal and hordes fo lesser n1agntficos the United States Government will be able to step forth as host with men to represent 1t who are inferior neither in diplomatic experience or in cosmo- politan knowledge of the world to those Of any European delegation. Secretary Hughes Brilliant Thinker The Secretary of State it is true, has not had a long diplomatic career, but such q career, observers point out, does not necessarily mean clearness and directness of thought thinking through" as Secretary Hughes him. self would call 1t. Tine iucidity and simplicity of MT, Hughes's mental processes will he more than a match, ] it Is thought, for anything that may be improted into Washington,
 Besides, the conference isn't going l to be affair of barter, picker and concession, so one hears.
 Since the question of the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance betook l itself so neatly from the international foreground the Diplomatic Corps in | Washington has had little patience for references to American ''shirt-sleeye'' 1 diplomacy, and one hears intimations ! that many of the corps are now study | ing the Hughes method, with a view | to possible improvement of their own | professional knowledge,
 l If Mir, Hughes is not a shirt-s1eeve | diplomat, neither does he go to an other extreme and think in terms of | frills and fFeatiers. Those who have | had the opportunity Of observing him | at clesa range expect him to impress European statesmen as being a fine type of American in public office, ap- | preciative Of the niceties of interna- | tional intercourse.
 Root No Shirt Sleeve Diplomat Elihu Root, the second member of l the American delegation. cannot be re-
 garded as a .shirt-sleeve diplomat
 either-not by 8 long stretch of the | imagination. MT. Root is simple l man in his personal manners, but he carries about with him an air of be- | ing internationally minded, of seeing a situation as a, whole. Many stories are told of the remarkable impression created by Mir, Root upon foreign | statesmen, He met some of them at | The Hague in connection with confer enees looking toward world peace, and his seierti0R to be g member of the | Permanent Court of International Jus l tice-aR honor which he was forced | to dsciine-is regarded as natural | sequel to his international popularity, | Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Mas l sachusettS, has been accorded many l epithets, not & few of which were un- | doubtedly intended to be sarcastic. ! Among these have been such appella- l tions as tYapkee Aristoerat' and the | Goldfish Duke" There has been prac- | ator Lodges political enemies, how- l tically no dispositiaR even among Sem ! ever, to deny his thoFeugh familiarity with foreign affairs. Those who have
 an intimate acquaintance with Wash l ingtop will attest to the popularity of SenatoF Lodge with the Diplomatic l Corps: Contrary to the idea, rather | Washington, MT: Lodge is one of the i prevalent in some quarters outside | most accessibis fa public men,
 Lodge WaScheS Foreign Affairs
 DurinE nrantioaiiy tfla whole of his