Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-21
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM W1LE.

This years Institute of Politics at
Williamstown, Mass, viii be attended
by an uncommonly noted aggregation
of statesmen. educators, diplomats,
editors and military and naval men
The round tables, as usual, will be
conducted in an international spirit,
with Americans actively debating
problems of mutual interest with
authorities from Europe, Asia and
South America. Disarmament, Sc
curity, competition in raw materials
and It's effect upon world peace, pub
lie opinion in foreign affairs and the
future role of chemistry in interna-
tional relations are some of the
widely diversified problems to be
tackled. The institute convenes on
July % and lasts until August 26.
DIR. Albert Z. Zimmerman of Hol-
land, who put Austria on it's feet as
jeremiah Smith Of Boston put Hun
gary on it's feet, will be one of the
foreign stars at Williamstown. States
men of Greece. Germany, India, Scot
land, Italy and France will be among
the distinguished foreigners at the
institute. Numerous members of the
diplomatic corps at Washington, in
Guiding japanese and Chinese. will
go to Williamstown for the round
tables.
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Miss Mile Morris of Washington,
an employee of the miscellaneous tax
division of the Treasury Department,
almost qualities for the fame that Sir
Walter Raleigh won when he spread
his cloak for Queen Elizabeth over
the most celebrated mud puddle in
history Miss Morris and her sister
Nxgcay. N ho
stone Park and CHANGED to be in the
party that included the Crown Prince
and Princess of Sweden. AS the party
was observing the Norris Geyser a
| violent rainstorm broke out. The
Misses Morris happened to be pro-
vided with rubbers. Noticing that
the Crown Princess and her lady-in-
waiting. Miss Christine de Reuters
ward, were without goloshes, the
Washington women calamity prof
fered their own to Princess Louise
and her attendant. They were CRATE
fully accepted, and when the entire
party, more or less drenched, reached
the shelter of a hotel, the Swedish
royalties caused the Washingtonians
to be cordially and specially thanked
for their courtesy.
They're an optimistic band over
there on the Quay Woodrow Wilson,
across which the palace Of the League
of Nations looks out upon Lake Le-
man at Geneva. An American
group at Genevalt sends an occa-
sional bulletin from league headquar.
| ters to sympathizing friends in the
United States. The latest to reach
this side, describing the recent SEES
sion of the league council as having
made history and marked a mile
stone in the development of the
league" says:
1T is unfortunate that America
| is not among those present, to
lend her hand and influence in this
work, which is becoming with
every session more important. We
| shall come in eventually because
logic. time and the course OF his
tory argue the impossibility of
staying out indefinitely. We, more
than any other nation, the original
builder of the league, will come in
| when the institution has been de-
/ veloped by other hands, and when
| the stone that the builder rejected
has become a corner stone indeed.
| Let us hope we shall come in early
| enough to play some part yet in
this development and to regain the
moral leadership we have so large
| ly lost
| Washington's biggest local news in
a decade-the vicissitudes of Freder.
lex A. Fenning, one of the Commits.
sioners Of the District of Columbia
has attracted amazingly little atten.
ton beyond the confines of the Cap
ital. Until a member of Congress
threW an inkWslle at Fanpipgss cpun,