Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC HILLIAM VILE

When President Hoover last week &C
cepted the resignation of Eugene Meyer
as farm loan commissioner, he said he
earnestly wished" that Meyer could
remain in public service" According
to talk current in quarters that some
times know in advance how the diplo-
matte wind is going to blow, Mr.. Meyer
is slated for another sphere of Official
activity far removed from farm finance.
The ambassadorship to Germany is said
to be the post he may next adorn. If
President Hoover really has such an
appointment in mind, it would be carry
ing out his we'll known plan to man as
many American embassies and legations
with busineSsmen-diplom as possible.
Meyer would be an ideal representative
at Berlin, from that point of view. Our
relations with Germany nowadays are
financial in the highest degree. She is
being accommodated in the American
money market to the tune of about half
billion dollars year. Under the new
separations plan, whatever it turns out
to be, the United States is bound to
bulk bigger than ever in Germany's
calculations. 1t would be difficult to
imagine a more astute American watch
on the Rhine than Eugene Meyer.
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Republican Progressive North Dakota.
which Hoover and Curtis carried in
November by 5000 majority, has inst
received notable recognition from the
White House. The President has ap-
pointed Seth w. Richardson, United
States district attorney for North Da-
kota since 1928, an Assistant Attorney
General of the United States. He sue
ceeds Bertice M. Parmenter of Okla
homa, at the Department of Justice.
Mr.. Richardson is a big, two-fiSted
lawyer. who was born in Iowa, was
graduated from the University of Wis
consin, and has been growing up with
the Northwest since 1908. He's been
fighting Uncle Sans battles in the
Federal courts for long time, having
functioned as special Government
counsel against the Standard Oil Co.
the Ignite coal operators and the grain
graders. He was ready for service over
seas, with captains rank, when the
law, Richardson calls golf and big-game
hunting his hobbies. He has brought
Gown everything on four feet in the
wtlds of Alaska and the Yukon.
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friends learn with sorrow of the death
of Sir Godfrey Butler, M. p, who
passed away in London the other day,
in the midst of a brilliant political
career. Butler, though badly incapaci-
tated physically, applied for war service
and was given a job at the British
foreign office. In 1917 after our entry
into the war, he was assigned to ac-
company the Balfour Mission TO the
United States. For a long time after
the mission left, Butler was in charge
Of the British ministry of informations
American activities, with headquarters
In Washington and New York. He had
already many ties in the United States,
having lectured for three years at the
University of Pennsylvania and married
Philadelphian. Sir Godfrey received
a knighthood for his war services.
Previous to entering the House of
Commons, he was a professor at Cam
bridge University. Only AZ at his death.
he was considered one of the coming
men in British politics.
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Another Washington landmark is to
go. The Butler House at New Jersey
avenue end 3 street Sontheast is to