Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23

Contemporary British politics has
never known q bigger laugh than the
sudden and inglorious curling up OF
the United Empire party" has given
it. This was the protective tariff move
nent set going in February with such
a predigious humping OF tubs by Lon
d0n's two great chain newspaper mag
mates, the Fleet street peers, LORD
BeayeTbrook and Viscount RothermeFe.
All seemed to be going as merrily as a
day in June-according, at least, 70
the bombastic bieats of triumph which
were uttered, day after day, under
page wide headlines In the Beaver
brook Rothermere press, which stretches
from one end of England to another.
Then came Mr.. Baldwin, the Conserya-
tive leader, at whom, in particular, the
UNITED Empire party" was lunehed'
He addressed q gathering OF his stand
pat, anti-tarih Unionist cohorts at
London mass meeting. He declared
that the Conservatives were as alive as
any group in the country to the neees-
stiles of taking the British economic
bull by the horns and devising ways
and means Of throwing it before 1t
rampages from bad to worse. But, Mf.
Baldwin insisted, that could be done
without boring from within Consefva-
tism's ranks and disrupting the party.
Returned to power, the former premier
pledged, the Conservatives would leave
no stone unturned to explore the pos,
sibility of improving interempire fiscal
relations. Baldwin even eSpoused q
referendum to let BritonS decide Wheth-
er or not they wish to tax their food.
His speech sufIiced to blow the Beaver
brook Rothermere schism into smith
Greens.
This observer lost a notable contact
of prewar days in Germany when
Grand Admiral Alfred Won Tirpitz
struck his flag and Joined the great
majority on March 6. AS the Berlin
correspondent Of Northcliffe's London
Daily Mail, the writer had constant
occasion to deal with "T1rpitz the
Eternal"-so dubbed because for the
better part of a quarter of a century
he remained at the German admiralty,
q power no chancellor, however potent
in other directions, could ever unhorse.
William II deposed reichskanzler after
Feichskanzler - Bismarck, Hoheplohe,
BueloW, Bethmann Hollweg and all the
rest of them-but Won TirpitZ, like
time, went on forever. 1t was of his
inSensate demand for an ever bigger
navy for the Fatheriand that Prince
BueloW in o famous RetchStag out.
burst once said, "The uninterrupteo
expansion of the German feet can only
have one result-pressure, counter
pressure and explosion" the explosion
came IN 1918 4** "a
Ambassador Walter e. Edge, our new
envoy to France, tarried in London fol
q week during the naval conference
crisis precipitated by France. He lived
at one of the famous West End hotels
Somebody tried to reach him by tele'
phone and asked for Ambassador
Edge" Chirped the English telephone
nymph In rejoinder, Don't you mean
Senator Edee?" The Jersey politician
diplomat couldn't account for the desig-
nation given by the switchboard oper-
ator, except on the theory that "once
Senator, always Senator" There
was q shFewd suspicion that the real
purpose of Edges flyer across the Chan.
mel was not to set the conference right
on France, but to give Ambassador
Morrow q few inside steers on how t6
win q Republican senatorial contest In
the Commonwealth of mosquitoes.
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Two striking events in London ae-
companied the unwilling OF o bronze
statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, the Ma
poleon of women's suffrage, on March
6. One was the holding OF the first
all-Women's banquet in the history OF
England. IT was given by the British
Federation of University Women. More
than $50 members attended. The dinner
started only 30 minutes late-Ino mems
banquet ordinarily equals that achieves
ment. Every one was able to talk to her
hearts content. Not one man was al