Evening star., 1929-12-13

William r. Castle, jr, Harvard, 90,
special Ambassador to Japan during
the London naval conference, has
just supplied the Harvard Graduates
Magazine with an informative article
on Harvard Men in the Foreign Serv-
ice" He reveals that more than IL
per cent CIT of its 600 members) or
the Foreign Service are graduates OF
the Cambridge university. "A goodly
percentage" comments Castle. when
one realizes that the service is drawn
from the entire United States and that
university training is not requisite for
admission" President Hoover'S ennis
sary to Toxic narrates:
soon after Mr.. Kellogg became
Secretary of State he asked me why
there were so many Harvard men
around. 1 answered that one rea-
son was that Harvard, possibly more
than any other college, brought
Government service to the atten-
ton of the students; that, in addt-
ton, liked to believe that Harvard
training gave a man a more serv-
iceable and adaptable intellectual
background than any other. The
Secretary said that this was prob
ably true; that he had seldom him.
self made the mistake of taking any
one but a Harvard Law School
graduate into his office. Whatever
may be the answer as to the reason
for this preponderance of Harvard,
it Is certain that proportionally
many more men of Harvard train
ing take the examinations for the
Foreign Service than men from any
other university, and that more pass
the examinations, in spite OF the
fact that the board Of examiners is
probably more critical Of them be-
cause they are little sensitive over
accusations as to the Harvard
clique in the Department of State"
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It'll be a sadly depleted State Depart
ment which the American naval dele
CATION to London will leave behind it In
washington. Assistant Secretary OF
State Castle will already be in Japan
Assistant Secretary of State Johnson
| will about the same time have taken uE
his new duties as Minister to China
Secretary OF State Stimson will head
the conference delegation, ana In his
entourage will be Mr.. Mariner, CHIEF
of the departments Western European
division; Mr.. McDermott, chief of the
division of current information, and
| number of other members of the per-
manent staff. Mr.. Cotton, Undersecre-
tary of State, will be acting Secretary
l NeNNANNS
| ing Col. StinSon's service overseas.
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Not so very many years ago Joseph L
| Grundy, Pennsylvania belated United
States Senator, was almost as unpopu-
| lar with the keystone Republican party
as he is with Senator Caraway, Demo
| crat. of Arkansas. Along about 1928 al
a state convention the Pennsylvania G
o. p. leaders hissed and booed the big
protection boss from Philadelphia ano
virtually denied him a voice In theiI
deIiberations-so a well known Republi-
can eyewitness informs this observer
II was a factional row, and at that time
Grundy's name was anathema. Politics
undergoes strange gyrations in Penn's
Woods, and now Grundy comes to
washington as the anointed favorite
son OF the State organization.
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All washington is waiting to see
| whether the move to GUST Senator
Grundy, now that he has been seated, on
the ground that he's dyed-in-the-wool
| tariff lobbyist, will get anywhere. II
would be the zenith of inconsistency. II
! it did. For Grundy to represent a 100
| per cent protective tariff State in the
| Senate is every bit as natural and APP
| propriate as 1t is for Senator Brookhart
| TO represent Iowa agriculture. OF
| young Bob" La Toilette to represent
Wisconsin progreSsivisnl, or for Senators
RansdeIl and Broussard to represent q
| Louisiana which Graves and demands
high tariffs on sugar. Many of Grundy'f
foes on Capitol Hill think he will be
| far less of a menace to the Republic
voting for protection in the Senate than
he would be If lobbying for 1t on the
outside.
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Thirty wears before he ever dreamed
/ of being President of the United States
Herbert Hoover on a certain occasion
in China gave graphic evidence Of hi
belief in preparedness for all occasions
Hoover then a vnIln1 mining engineer