The Washington times., 1923-10-31
EAST 'HOGG|NG'
DIPLOMATIC
BERTHS
Senator Mccormick Points
Out How West Is Ignored
in Good Posts.
By WILLIAM HARD.

BY WILLIAM HARD.
A fine young Western political
patronage revolt has sprouted out
Of Senator Medill McCormick's
attack upon 'Laodicean Leaguers"
and "Lotophagoi" in the diplo-
matte missions and endeavors of
the United States.
It is believed that one of the
Senator's strongest feelings re-
garding our diplomats is not
merely the alleged presence among
them of "Laodicean Lacquer"
and "Lotophagoi" but the un-
doubted scarcity among them Of
robust Westerners hailing from
somewhere westward. of Ohio.
Lists Carefully Prepared.
Careful lists have been in prepa-
ration. It is learned, of all impor-
tant American diplomatic persons.
classified according to the States
and according to the regions from
which they do their hailing. These
lists show that very few citizens
seem to be able to hail the diplo-
matte wagon loud enough to get on
board of it If they live in the neigh
borhood Of the Mississippi.
Citizens, on the other hand. who
live in the neighborhood of the
Hudson or Of the Delaware seem
to be able to hail the diplomatic
wagon at almost any crossroads for
almost any destination.
Such conclusions and assertions
are freely springing up out of Sem
ator McCormick's liberal contribu-
ton of classical and Biblical words
to the dictionary Of diplomacy; and
there has been much passing about
Of q list which contains the names
Of all citizens who have had the
honor to serve this country during
these present times in the following
capacities:
Ambassadors or ministers.
Members of the Limitation Of
Armaments Conference.
Members of the Santiago Pan
American Conference.
Members of the European Debt
Refunding Commission.
Leading officials Of the State
Department.
These citizens in these appoint
ments amount in number to an
sven seventy. They are the coun-
try's seventy diplomatic elders.
Twenty.one Of them come from
the two states of New York and
Pennsylvania Seven more of them
come from Massachusetts. These
three states together provide two
fifths of the seventy.
Moreover. they provide more than
one-haf Of the cream and upper
crust of the seventy.
Three States Get Eight.
Ambassadors are better than
ministers-much better. These three
States accordingly provide eight of
our twelve ambassadors.
Two of these States-New York
end Massachusetts-are so dedi-
Gated to diplomacy that among the
four top-dog officials in the State
Department they have produced all
four-namely, the Secretary, the
Under Secretary, the Assistant Sec
retary and the Second Assistant
Secretary.
Those same two States-New
York and Observation-Disclosures us
three of our four delegates to the
washington Limitation of Arma-
ments Conference.
Meanwhile the only chance that
Senator McCormick's State of IlIi-
nois has had at the diplomatic
table has been to provide a min
lister to the country not inappro-
priately named Hungary.
The citizens of most of our West
ern States, If they arrive into
diplomacy at all, seem to have a
passion for being mere ministers to
minor-chord countries.
West Virginia has one diplomat;
and he has gone to Paraguay.
Kentucky has just one; and he is
at Panama. Tennessee has pro-
duced in the present list total Of
one; and he has dived into Bolivia.
Oklahoma boasts one; and he is
serving in Guatemala. Oregon has
hatched but one; and he has de-
parted to Siam.
Kansas Points to One.
Wisconsin has nurtured one; and
he represents US in Ecuador. Kan
sas can point to one; and he can
BE- deserted in Finland. Colorado
has reared one; and he looks after
Nicaragua. South Dakota displays
enc: and he does diplomacy in
Venezuela.
AS really high-class "Laodicean
Leaguers" and "Lotophagoi," these
Westerners seem to be nowhere.
Senator Mccormick, who speaks
Spanish and Italian. as well as
French and English, besides utter.
ing political defiances in Greek and
Latin, says that the new interna-
tional reparations calculation and
recalculation committee should con.
tain George NJ. Reynolds, who, &C.
cording to Senator Mccormick.
can be proved to be no "Laodicean
Lacquer" or "Lotophagos," and
who can be proved also to come
from Illinois, but Who should, never
theless, according to Senator Nc
sCormick. be appointed.
Copyright. 1929 Washington Press
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