Evening star., 1925-06-26
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

Italy's dent nesotiators in Washing
ton are two d the ablest men in Mus
solini's service. Signor Mobile Gia-
como de MARITIME, Ambassador to the
United States. was Ambassador sue
cessively at Berlin, London and Toxic
before coming to Washington. He is
an exceptionally astute diplomatist of
the modern school, and once was gen
eraI secretary Of the Italian foreign
Office. Secretary Mellon will And him
sharp and shrewd in discussion. Sig.
nor Mario Alberti is general manager
of the Credito Italiano, one OF the
great private banks Of Italy, and has
been an official adviser OF the Italian
government on interallied finances ana
economics since the war. He ATTENDED
all the reparations conferences in Eu-
rome that preceded the Dawes plan
and then co-operated in its formula
ton. Once he was a member OF the
finance commission of the League OF
Nations.
Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Mon
tana, who has had as strenuous
time as any man in Washington these
past two years, will spend the Summer
in Europe. There he will combine lro-
fessional activity with holiday max
ing and an act of filial piety. One OF
the Senator's first stopping places will
be Ireland. There, at opposite ends
of the Emerald Isle, both his parents
were born. Senator Walsh has never
visited ancestral soil. Afterward he
will go The Hague, to be the guest OF
Richard M. Tobin, American Minister
to the Netherlands, and to see the
World Court in action. Walsh expects
to imbibe much local color at The
Hague for use in the World Court DO
bate in the Senate in December. sep
tember will find the senior Senator
from Montana at Geneva, as an unotn.
cial observer at the annual meeting OF
the League of Nations Assembly. Be
fore he returns to America he will
make a jubilee year so5ourn In Rome.
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Tsuneo Matsudaira, the Japanese
Ambassador, is undergoing his maiden
experience as guest at American
country houses. He is learning that
a Yankee either polishes his own
shoes or patronizes g. bootblack, un-
less he's spent the night in a Pull
man. At palatial home on the
Jersey coast not long ago Mr.. Matsu-
daira set three or four pairs of shoes
outside of his bedroom door, expect.
ing to find them there, shined, next
morning. Instead, they were as he
left them, unpublished. After having
the same experience over again, a
member of his suite asked their host
If the Ambassador could be driven to
g. nearby town for half an hour. 1t
was a jerkwater place, and mystery
prevailed. "His excellency wants to
have his shoes shined," was the ex-
PLANTATION.
Telephone conversation with Main
64O0, the United States Treasury:
Il want to talk to the ONCE or the
World War Debt Funding Commits
sion.''
wrong number. You want the Vet
erans' Bureau"
+ Maybe the nymph Of the switch
board thinks our European debts have
become veterans.
One of the best sellers out in the
West is 1.-The Dawes Plan In the
Making" by Rufus G.. Dawes, a
brother of the Vice President and
business man in Chicago. 1t is de-
scribed as the first authoritative ac-
count OF the deliberation and actions
of the Reparations Commission. The
publishers call 1t 'the inside story. ;"
Former Gov. Frank Q. Lowden Of
Illinois has written a foreword. Rufus
|C. Dawes was selected by his brother
and Owen D. Young to- act as CHIEF