Evening star., 1925-12-07

an to be cabinet officer in President
Coolidge's regime.
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Although the World Court discussion.
according to the calendar, will start on
december II. a vote is not likely for
several weeks afterward. Congress
Will adjourn for the HOLIDAYS two or
three days after the court spellbinding
sets in. and it will be January before
the orators turn loose their batteries
OF eloquence again. If the ayes and
noes on the court proposition are
called for as early as February Is.
those mostly concerned will be yerv
happy. The President is serenely
hopeful that the adhering resolution
Will he safely in harbor in time to
celebrate the third anniversary of
the courts birth as a Senate meas
ure-February %, 1926.
Maj. John Q. Quekemeyer's ap-
pointment as comman ndant of cadets at
West Point puts a Southerner in that
coverted post. "Queck," as his Army
cronies have known him for years.
comes from Senator Pat Harrison's
Mississippi. He will be one
OF the youngest officers ever to occupy
the place. Maj. Quekemeyer, who
went to Tacna-Arica with Gen. Per.
shlng, served the commander-in-ch chief
of the American expeditionary forces
as his aide throughout the World War.
Up to the time we entered the fray,
.9ueck, in the capacity of an as
slstant military attache at London.
was attached to British &c. H. O." as
American liaiSon officer His sturdy
breast is beribboned with about all
the decorations and medals of honor
our allied comrades in arms had to
distribute. "Quek" is one of the
United States Army's crack polo
players, and one of the foremost beaux
in Washington society.
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Now that she's about to become
Mrs. Speaker" it will be interesting
to observe the social role played by
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. princess
Alice" during her distinguished hus-
bands political career in Washington,
has Systematically eschewed the
stereotyped ways Of official society.
She has done little or no formal en-
tertaining, and has concentrated on
accepting only that brand of hospi.
tality which she found interesting
rather than necessary. Mrs. Long
worth's salon is probably the most
exclusive and coveted at the CAPITAL.
She insists that her guests be worth
while and not merely politically valu.
able. AS her adored Mick" hence
forward will sit in one of the seats of
the mighty Princess Alice" may de-
eide to take a more active hand in the
dinner and dancing doing of the Capi.
tai society than hitherto has been her
wont. The new Longworth home on
the Massachusetts, avenue extension"
region lends itself to functions of the
more elaborate sort.
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Count Coudenhove-K Kalergi, a young
CZechoslovakfan nohleman, is a visitor
to Washington in the course Of a first
hand study of Americas attitude to-
ward world affairs. He calls Locarno
a long step toward "Pan-European
Union" and United States Of Eu.
rope" but does not think that either
the new security pacts or the pros
perity of the League of Nations mean
that war has been banished from the
Old World for all time, 1t is the arti-
fetal, unnatural and danger-breeding
frontiers that today abound in Eu-
rope-"half a dozen new Alsace-Lor.
raines." he calls them-that contain
the seeds Of new war, the count thinks.