Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-30

Newspaper comment in this country
treats with mock seriousness the dlplo-
matte episode involving the resignation
of Senior Alfredo Gonzales Prada, who
quit his post as counselor and charge
d'affaires of the Peruvian embassy at
Washington after Mrs. Miles PoindeX-
ter, wife of the former United States
Ambassador to Peru, had made a row
about the diplomats taking over OF two
servants she had brought from Peru.
Mrs. Poindexter." explains the Des
Moines Tribune-Capital, appears to
have sent a hot letter about it to the
President of Peru. The President of
Peru, being a gallant gentleman, re-
buked the first counselor by cable. And
the counselor promptly resigned. ANY
comment on that episode would be gid
ing the lily. The episode is simply TOO
rich as it is"
Thou shalt not steal thy neigh
boris servant" according to the MIL
waukee Journal, lis the eleventh COM
mandment, and so. naturally, the first
commandment that gets attention III
the best social circles" The Journal
comments further: Dolly Gam and
Alice Longworth had better start some
thing soon If they want to be 1t IN
Washington. For the house Of Poin-
dexter now has or hasn't the most ad-
VeTClSeQ III LIlc OIllCCo t1AiA
1t doesn't matter which"
Referring to the fact that Mrs. Pom
dexter appealed to the President OF the
South American republic for assistance,
the indianapolis News declares: Not
till now has the head of a state been
asked to preserve unbroken the relation
between a family and those who serve
ito preserve it at least against the
assault of a representative in America
of the government over which he pre-
sides. That is decidedly new func-
ton. Never before was there an appeal
to the head of state to assume any
such role. President Hoover, under this
new practice, might find himself greatly
embarrassed if Ambassador Dawes, or
one of his young men, should lure away
a servant - butler, as in this in
stance-of Lady Aston. The possible
ties are great and not without certain
direful quality"
"In Peru" thinks the Baltimore Sun,
"the incident should do Senior Prada no
harm If he has political aspirations.
He has rescued two honest Peruvian
citizens from employment which they
seem to have found uncongenial and to
continue in which they had apparently
been led to believe was their duty. Any
lawyer would have been obliged to tell
them the same thing, but, considering
Mrs. PoindeXter'S resources, any lawyer
will be just as glad that the legal point
in question was referred to Senior
Prada"
Also considering future possibilities
the Roanoke Times says: 1.-THE gentle
man who has lost his position at the
Peruvian embassy is really in luck. All
he has lost is job. In exchange for
it he has a career within his grasp
provided he knows how to play Alright
the hand which Fate, the dealer, has
given him."
"A few more of these clashes between
Washington women and the foreign
diplomats" in the opinion OF the South
Bend Tribune. may reduce Ramsay
Macdonald and Benito MuSsolini to
such q state that they may be afraid
to answer the transatlantic telephone
if they have been informed by their
secret agents, in Washington that a
Congressman's wife has lost second
cook" The Worcester Telegram Sls-
poets that there may be more politics
involved than appears on the surface"
and the Kalamazoo Gazette remarks
that ANY day now we may hear that
the League of Nations has established
a special court of arbitration to decide
who may hire whose servants, and If
so. why"
''The social and diplomatic melee" !
as observed by the Indianapolis Star,
seems to have ended in a virtual draw,
although ring experts might be inclined
to give the Peruvian shade. He has
lost his job, but he keeps the servants.
His finances apparently are not in
jeopardy, as he shortly will embark on
q European tour"
X = + r
Commencing Senior Prada because he
stood on his dignity as man." the
Dayton Daily News comments: "A job
as Ambassador was something, but his
right to have servant like Cornelius
II he wanted him was more. Ambas- |
sador Prada told DR.. Gamio to take |
his old Enthusiastically; Senior Prada