Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-07

It's matter Of historically tustiaable
interest 70 know what was the flrst
hing Ramsay Macdonald and Herbert
Hoover talked about. The prime min
The hrst thing I want 70 do when
see Mr.. Hoover" the British Labor
leader explained In London the other
day. lis to finish sentence In which
was interrupted when NE frst met
MANY years ago" This is what hap
pened. Some time prior to 1914. when
the present President Of the United
States was London mining engineer
In the heart Of The City" and Ramsay
Macdonald was a mere Labor member
If Parliament. they came casually to-
rether at the home Of mutual friends.
They we're toastins themselves before
an open crate flre, talking about things
In general. Presently" as Mr.. Mac
donald tells the story. "o1e Of those
unbearable bores sauntered UP and In
terrupted our conversation in the mid
die OF a sentence IT something ] was
saving 70 Mr.. Hoover" As soon as
the prime minister decided TO come 70
America he declared, with A twinkle
tended 70 carry on" with the President
where they left Of le-odd years ago.
Most pecule speak and think Of Mr.,
Macdonald az tall. rangv Scot. He ts,
On the contrary, not q man OF great
height. though perhaps an inch or two
above medium. He does not measure
10 to President Hoover's feet OF stat
ure. Many washingtcnians remark the
prime minister's facial resemblance &c
Senator Walsh Of Montana. Shaggy
eyebrows, closs-cropped musteche their
upper-lip adornments once upon time
were more Of the walrus Variety ana
bushv gray hair accentuate the general
similarity. Mr.. Macdcnald's highland
burr is less pronounced than Americans
expected. when he says "wurreld' for
world" 1t crops out most conspicu-
ously. Men and women meeting the
British statesman for the hrst time are
shocked a bit when they realize than all
his life Macdonald has been Laborite
and a radical Socialist. In aspect, man
nsr and temperament. he's about as far
removed from the popular conception OF
"a
DISTINGUISHED British and American
Journalists crossed the Atlantic with
the prime minister. Those Of his own
nationality are headed by Sir John
Fraser represents the London Daily
telegraph and it. allied group Of provir-
cial newspapers. He has 1ectured In
the United States and covered" many
big stories over here. including the
Washington Armament Conference.
big, bulky Briton, who. when he's in
the lean and slippered years, Is going
to look like John Bull. Fraser is Scot.
famed for his huH1er. Asked once upon
q time for his impression Of American
small-town audiences, Sir John replied
that they presented "a sea OF faces
flushed with soft drink and stuffed with
succotash." Angel (whose nor. profes-
sjoYlal name Is Ralph Lane) Ia the au-
thor Of a famous anti-war book called
THE Great Illusion He has long
been an intimate friend Of Ramsay
Macdonald. Angel was brought UP in
the States"
Of the great German field marshal.
Won Moltke, IT Is related that a day or
two after the Franco.Prussian War
broke out friends encountered him. clad
in civilian aarb and armed with fishing
tackle, in q Berlin railway station.
bound for the country. They niarveled
that Moltke should have chosen such
an hour for taking a vacation. why
r1ot?" he rejoined. MY work is done"
He had prepared the Prussian army for
war. last Friday afternoon. just as
the last caisson of field artillery had
ratified away from Union Station Plaza
At the tail.end of the Macdonald motor
cavalcade 70 the British embassy, a
handsome young American, fAultiessly
attired In top hat. morning coat. striped
trousers, yellow gloves and all the rest
Of II, stood calmly lighting cigarette.