Evening star., 1927-05-06

Winston Churchill-"the English
Winston" as he is often called in
contradistinction to the Vermont
novelist of the same name--will not
feel unduly humbled by Secretary
Kellogg's stinging re3oinder to the
British debt note. Churchill is ac-
customed to hard knocks. No states
man in British history was ever
hammered so mercilessly as the bril-
liant chancellor of the exchequer has
been during his tempestuous political
career. Churchill, as a member or
the first World War cabinet in Lon
don. made two "breaks" fatal enough
to wreck half a dozen public men. lie
was held responsible for the Ill
starred attempt to save Antwerp in
1924, and later was pilloried through
out the British Empire as the cuiprlt
in the far more disastrous Gallipoll
campaign. Yet winston" as friend
and foe dub him, survived, changed
his politics from Liberal to Con-
servative. and today. nine years after
the armistice, occupies one Of the
American, his mother having been
the famous Lady Randolph Churchill,
To be prime minister of Great Britain
is his acknowledged goal.
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Washington's diplomatic world rocks
with speculation as to the. interna-
tional consequences Of the Kellogg
Churchill Mellon imbrOglio. Wonder
is expressed as to whether, and how,
it will affect Anglo-American co-opera-
ton in China, on naval disarmament,
and at the Geneva economic confer
ence. There was uncommonly plain
speaking on the part Of both London
and Washington. The British, IN
effect, asked the United States to dis
avow one of the pillars of the Coolidge
administration. Any one who knows
the towering regard in which the
President holds Mr.. Mellon will under
stand how wide of the mark London
shot in aiming at any such result.
Our note has significance far be-
yond Americas unreadiness to discuss
the particular issues the British
raised. 1t is notice to all concerned
that Uncle Sam considers that debts
have passed out of the realm OF
diplomacy and are now purely matters
to be settled on agreed terms between
the American Treasury and the Euro
pean nations which have signed on
the dotted line.
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AIfreQ Pedrc6 DeIIllS Ol NIdI y llIIb,
vice chairman of the United States
Tariff Commission, went to bat
tri1nphantly as a pinch-hitter for Sec
retary Hoover at the big United States
Chamber of Commerce banquet in
Washington Wednesday night. Hoover
had been ordered back into the flood
area by President Coolidge an hour
or two before his time to address the
company of 500 diners on New Fac
tors in Our Economic Life" The COM
mittee, remembering that Dennis for
several years was one of Hoover's
trusted commercial attaches in Eu-
rope, drafted him, and, appropriately
enough, the tariff commissioner there
upon divested himself brilliantly of an
extempore address on the genius OF
America for improvisation. Once upon
time, when he was a college pro-
fessor at Smith, Dennis was a crony
of budding young Northampton
lawyer named Calvin Coolidge.
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Americas medical fraternity will
nav striking tribute at Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery on May II to the ply
sicians and surgeons who gave their
lives in the World War. The first
American soldier to be killed by the
enemy in France was a physician. SO
was the first soldier to be wounded in
action. The first members of the
American expeditionary forces were
killed on September /, 1917, by bombs
dropped upon United States Army
Base Hospital No. ), Dannes-Camiers.
France, by enemy airplanes--a lieu
tenant and three privates of the Medi-
cal Corps. Altogether 500 American
medical officers died during the war
from all causes; 9S1 were wounded and
died. Speakers at Arlington will in
clude DIR. Hubert Work. Secretary of
the Interior; Maj. Gen. Charles p.
SummeraIl, chief of staff. u. s. A, and
Baron de Cartier, the Belgian Ambas-
sador and dean of the Washington
diplomatic corps.
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Mai Gen. James G. Harbord (re-
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