Evening star., 1923-01-09

! travelled extensively and is the au-
thor Of book called "With the Trade
Other important diplomatic change.
Col. Charles b. Warren from the am n. :
hassadorship to Japan may lead to the
transfer to Toxic of Ambassador
Houghton from Berlin. Mr. Hougnton
10 said not TO be enamored OF exist
erce In Germany and TO have express
ed preference for service In the land
OF the chrysanthemums. President
Harding once rendered the Toxic en-
nassy to former Gov. Frank o. Low
den of Illinois Mr.. Lowden's friends
say ne cannot be eliminated from the
list Of those who cherish presidential
ambitions In 1924. II they are speak
ms by the book, Japan is hardly the
angle from which Mr.. Lowden would
re-establish his lightning rod.
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BY coincidence both our ambas.
sador and consul general at London
happen to be In Washington at the
same time, respectively, Col George
Harvey and Robert Peet Skinner. /,
isn't the first time Harvey and Skin.
ner have been In close association. In
the long ago both were active news
papermen, attached to the staff of the
New York World. Harvey was a DO.
lltical correspondent and Skinner q
chopper OF copy on the might desk
More than once, as he now relates
with considerable gusto, it became
SINNERS inescapabIe duty TO "edit.
Harvey's STUFF" to printable proper.
tions. There are elder statesmen ex.
tAht VINO would have craved thai
privilege in cotemporary times.
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Fred w. Upham of Chicago, watch.
dog of the G. o. P. treasury, has just
left Washington after one of his fort.
nightly conferences with President
Harding and other republican chief.
tains. The friendship between the
Harding and Upham families is
more than a political tie. No guest:
| are moro welcome at the White
House than the republican national
committee treasurer and his wife, 9
charming .Iowan. Upham. IL is al
open secret, could have had and still
| can have anything within President
Hardings gift In the way OF prefer.
ment. When somebody this week
asked the Chicagoan. who has re-
1 tboco SduInSL OiICt anu foreign am
! bassadorships, whether II is true tha
he has only TO ask In order to receive
| Upham rejoined with u story,
| "Over In Paris" he said, 9there's Z
distinguished American newspaper cor
! respondent who wears a goatlike beard
] was walking down the Rue de Rivoi
| one day with another American WheI
| we saw the correspondent approsch
| ing. said to my friend: There
comes a fellow who can have any
thing he wants in France. ! guess.
My friend retorted. Well, why
| doesn't he get a shaver"
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Laurence Ginnell, the eminent Irisf
! politician. who has just arrived In
the United States as envoy of III,
De Valera insurrectionists, once haC
to be carried out OF the house of com
mons by four husky British police
men. Mr.. Ginnell, in pre-Free STATE
days. represented his native count,
Of Westmeath in the British pariia
ment. During one of the heated Irisf
debates of eight or ten years ago ths
! member for Westmeath insisted upoT
| addressing the speaker in Gaelic
! Calls to order and commands to use
the kings English made no impress
| sion upon Ginnell. Finally the ser,
| geant-at-arms was ordered TO cleal
| for action, and, with hobbies" tug
| ging at each of his arms. and legs
| the Irish NJ. r. was yanked out of tht
house. shouting Gaelic defiance all the
way.