The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11

Del artment gave the A. P. that
story" he was quoted as saying, "but
what's the use of putting the State
Department and Kellogg more in bad
than it is now. It's discredited
enough and I for one am opposed to
smearing it with more mud"
Apparently this was the way the
rest of the Republican majority of
the committee felt, because the res
olution was reported unfavosably to
the senate and was never acted upon.
Morale Is Shattered.
The morale of the Department is
badly shattered. The intelligent and
Woodworking younger men are rapid
ly leaving. For the most part those
running affairs are social climbers,
spat wearers and cane carriers. The
department is a bureaucracy encom-
passing other bureaucracies. An in
sight of what was going on was given
recently by the outbreak of Lawrence
Dennis, American Charge de'Affaires
at Managua, Nicaragua. He flared
up when refused promotion and is
sued a statement charging "a Har-
ward clique" with control of the de-
partment and that promotion and ell
ovation was obtainable only through
social prestige and wealth. Instead
of discharging him, he was urged to
return to Washington, take an ex-
tended leave of absence and assured
him that his suggestions" would re-
ceive earnest attention. Dennis is
sued further fulminations in which
he accused the department of "high
hating" newspapermen-the express
sion is the one used by him. How
ever when he returned to Washington,
after leaving the ship secretly at New
Orleans upon orders from Kellogg,
he declined to go further into his al
legations, particularly those concern
ing alleged secret instructions to
American consuls throughout Cen
tral-America to support the marine
maintained Diaz regime in Nicara-
qua.
Kellogg a Weakling.
The matter was dropped for the
time being. That it developed is of
the greatest significance, however. 1t
corroborated what has long been
bruited about, that the department
was at logger-heads within itself.
Kellogg, a weakling, indolent, irras-
chile, without the capacity Cor COM
prehension to make up for the abys-
NAL lack of information and exper-
fence that characterizes him, has by
his countless stupidities disturbed the
usual equanimity of the department
and denioralized its elan.
Kellogg's policies are those of out
siders. A lawyer representing oil
operators in Mexico boosted of his in
fluence with Kellogg. He would hold
long conferences with Kellogg, write
vicious editorials and news stories for
the reactionary Washington Post, to
have what he thus published even
tuate as the departments policy
within a few days. In China, Kellogg
disregarding completely the great OPP
portunity for taking a courageous,
humane position, played second fiddle
to Great Britain.
The "AIistake Department.
Everything he has put his palsied
hand to, has suffered. In Washing
ton they refer to the department as
"Our mistake department" or excl
logg's fake department" There is
talk that he is soon to get out. 1t
has even reached the point of discuss
ing his successor. Ambassador
Houghton, to England, and Charles
Beecher Warren, former Ambassador
to Mexico are most prominently men
I toned.
Yet, while this talk is going on, it
is known that Kellogg assured Borah
very recently, that he had no inten-
ton of getting out. Unless he is
forced out, it is hardly likely that he
will leave voluntarily. If he retires
he is nothing. In his home state,
Minnesota, he is a discred;ted poll
tician. Elsewhere he is a laughing
stock. His regime as Secretary OF
State has been distinguished solely
by it's stupidities, its lack of under
standing of the great human streams
of progress that are underway, his
frightful and pitiful blunders.
Despised In Washington.
During period in the worlds his
tory when he, and Coolidge too, with
ringing words Of decency and cour-
ageous insistence for fair-playing
might have rehabilitated the nation
in the eyes of mankind, he has blum.
dered and faltered.
1t is really an astonishing fact, that
even here in Washington, he is des-
pissed and condemned. Even the
Washington Post, turned on him, anc
during the Dennis episode carried
amazing articles charging the de.
partment with incompetence and Kel
logg with lying.
No better comment, on the state Of
affairs within the State Department
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