Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-16
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC RILLIAM VILE

Naval agitation in Japan. and the
United States, with its fanciful sug-
gestions of new Armsgeddon in the
Pacific, has not disturbed Nippon's
| representatives in Washington. This
observer asked Isaburo Yoshida, Jap
anese charge daffaires, what he
| thinks. about the explosive talk ram
pant among certain elements in both
| countries. He said: 80,
| mo sensible man in America or in
Japan has any idea of war between
| the United States and Japan. We
have nothing to say against any other
| country increasing its navy. but 1
| must say that 1t is not only ridicu-
lous but wicked to use. as, the pretext
| the charge that Japan is preparing
for war"
Tsuneo Matsudaira, who has just
been appointed Japanese Ambassador
| to the United States, is now vice min
| lister Of foreign affairs at Toxic. The
Washington enthusiastically has been
going begging In Japan ever since Mr..
Hanihara quit the post last July. Ow-
ing to the irritation caused by our
| immigration laws, Japan's job on the
Potomac is looked upon as a grave
yard for diplomatic regulations.
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Unnoticed in the throng Of nota-
| sentatlves for the Woodrow Wilson
memorial service was Col. Edward
| NJ. House. Although House and Will
/ son never met from the time they
| parted company at Paris in June,
I 1919, the colonel's esteem for the war
| President never tagged. An elev-
| enth-hour hitch in arrangements, not
entirely ASSOCIATED with the breach
| between Wilson and his one-time
most confidential adviser, kept House
| from attending the late Presidents
| funeral last February. But the colonel
eagerly embraced the opportunity
| to do unobtrusive homage to his
l friend at the congressional memorial.
| To date House has successfully re-
| sisted seductive temptations to write
/ his memoirs of days behind the Will
! son throne.
| X X x y
American history records few more
dramatic scenes than the one present.
! ed by the presence of William Howard
Taft and Charles Evans Hughes on
| the floor of the House when DR.. Ed
win A. Alderman was eulogizing
/ Woodrow Wilson. In one of the
panegyrist's most vigorous passages
| he described the circumstances which
gave Wilson victory in the successive
| campaigns of 1912 and 1915. Less
/ than 20 feet away, separated by CAL
vim Coolidge, sat the two men who
| were victims of the presidential cleo
| tions which Alderman was analyz
1 ing. From the press gallery 1t was
| possible to observe closely the emo
| lions the orators words were aFous-
| ing in the auditors nearest him.
| Neither Taft nor Hughes WINGED. Nor
| was there any visible perturbation
/ among members of the Harding-Cooi-
| idge administration, clustered there
| in a emi-circle, when DR.. Alderman
| depicted "the four closing years In
i the life of Woodrow Wilson" as
| harsh, unherofc, uninspiring years In
public affairs"
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| Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the
| Navy, is a glutton for work when IL
4 comes to the use of his pen. The
recent voluminous report on the state
! of the Navy, which he addressed to
i Representative French, chairman of
the subcommittee on naval appro-
4 priations. was the product of Wilbur
own hand. AS the report ran to sew