Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13
A Week i'm World History

up of those ideas Cooking to peace
and international co-operation) you
and I meeting, together today, must
remember the tremendous contributions
which have been made by other peo-
Piles. We are not out for any exclusive
alliance. You would reject 1t. So
should I; 1t is not for the benefit of
either of U.S."
What could have been more to the
point or more pleasing to the ears of
/ Senator Borah, chairman of the for
eign relations committee, and other
members of the Senate, who cling
tenaciously to the American tradition
of no entangling alliances with Europe,
or more pleasing to the ears of the
French and the Italians and other con-
! tinental peoples, who have been in
clined to regard with certain amount
of suspicion the approach of warm
accord between Britain and America?
Mr.. Macdonald, the visitor, the
speaker in the Senate and to the Amer
| lean press, has been particularly in the
public eye. Mr.. Hoover has been more
in the background. He has made no
public addresses since Mr.. Macdonald
has been In this country.
Potent Conference Factor.
But it takes two to make a confer
ence and the President of the United
States has been a potent factor. There
have been few men in public life who
have had the power to analyse and to
bring forth the very pith of a matter
that is possessed by Mr.. Hoover. Across
conference table, or, as 1t happened
with Mr.. Macdonald, beside an open
fire in a mountain cottage or sitting on
. fallen oak tree beside the rushing
waters of the Rapidan River Mr., Hoo
hoc
only displomatist, but also a great
executive. While the public plaudits
have been for Mr.. Macdonald, Amer
ica'S guest, the accomplishment Of the
American President is deserving of the
highest praise. 1t has been MIR. Hoover,
first through Ambassador Dawes and
Secretary StimSon, and then through
his own personal contact with the Brit
ish prime minister, who has been able
/ to make not only clear, but entirely
reasonable, the position of the United
States in the matter of naval limita-
ton and that sine qua non II any agree
ment was to be reached, full parity be-
tween the navies of the two nations.
Mr.. Macdonald, again In his speech
to the Senate, expressed his great de-
light with the conversations between
himself and President Hoover, saying:
"Ah, Senators, as long as you conduct
your negotiations by correspondence.
over thousands of miles of sea, you will
never understand each other at all. In
these democratic days, when heart
speaks to heart as deep speaks to deep
and silence talks to silence, personality,
contact, exchange Of views by the lip,
sitting at two sides of fireplace, as 1t
was my great privilege to do this week
end with your President - these things
are to be as important as anything else
in laying the foundation of TN enduring
peace all over the world"
Magic Touch Of Oratory.
The prime minister pronounced it
"W-o-r-r-o-l-d" with the burr of the
Scotch accent. He possesses, however,
the magic touch Of oratory, the imagery
Of the poet and the earnestness Of
covenanting Scots of the days of old. He
is a great advocate. Americans who
wonder at his leadership in Britain. Mr..
Macdonald does not shape up, upon
closer contact, as radical" or red"
in the usually accepted definition of
those terms in this country. Nor does
the party he represents on Investigation
prove to be the radical affair which in
some quarters 1t has been supposed to
be. Radical in London, 1t appears. is
mild term, a tame word, after all. The
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Macdonald heads today, drew its re-
cruits not from the bomb throwing ele-
ment Of society ip Europe, but from the
God-fearing, steady and sturdy workers
in English mill and factory and mine
and farm, men and women many of
whom spent Saturday afternoon prepar-
ing for their religious observance of the
Sabbath, and from the forward think
ing men and women of all classes of So
ciety. NATURALIZATION" of resources
and certain industries, frequently re-
ferred to as the policy of the Labor
party in Britain, has not the meaning
that these resources and industries are
to be turned over to government boards
to run The Labor party does not be-
lieve in government operation of bust
ness, or that government Is qualified for
such operation. It does believe, how
ever, that the resources of the country
and its industries should be preserved
and operated for the benefit OF the
worker, as we'll as Of the employer, and
that when the interests of worker and