Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02
Britain's 'HrOn Chancellor

| She has paid tribute to her husbands
domestic character. I'm the home he is
the most considerable of husbands.
He lives frugally, although he is no fad
dist. He Is sweetness itself, and patience
personified. His one fault is de-
votion to work. -. fell in love with
Philip when saw his smile"
Snowden has indeed a very sweet and
| tender smile when his heart is touched.
But his heart never is touched by the
| perplexities of political opponents nor
the difficulties of his own colleagues.
1t has been said that II Ramsay Mac
donald were to go-and there have been
many intrigueS against him in the past
-Snowden would succeed him as leader
| Of the party. But that is improbable,
because although he is in some respects
the most powerful man in the party, he
is far from being the most popular;
and the capacity for charming and win
ming men has not been included in his
| makeup.
He is an intellectualist, with all the
tastes and foibles strengths and weak
neSses of the type. He does not like
the hurly-burly of mass meetings, nor
Is he skilled in the maneuvers necessary
| to keep political pack in line and in
| good temper. His is not and never has
been the soft answer that turneth away
wrath. His tongue has raSped as many
in his own camp as in the enemys.
Would Soak" the MilIiOnaires.
| He would like to soak the millionaires
in order to ease the tax burden on the
hard-pressed bourgeoisie But he has
nothing save scorn for the wild ideas
OF the reds and pinks for Matchmaking
the banks and imposing a capital levy,
nor will he yield an inch to the self
| 1t - III
| tional colleagues for little injection of
imitation in order to ease the unem-
ployment problem.
He was not always thus He has
made pronouncements in the past which
would have caused a Shudder to run
through the city had they been made
lust before Labor government came
into office. But he has evolved. He
has met great financiers and men of
business on intimate terms. and he
graspS the intricacieS of economic Sys-
tenn which keeps 5000 900 human
beings fed, housed and amused in their
various ways on the island.
! he has trimmed the sails of his early
shining Socialist dreams to the winds
OF everyday realities; and when he was
entertained by big business recently he
made speech which read like one of
the annual addresses of the big bank
| NAA8AAACAAt anu caused RllL-e0Qe0
securities TO brighten in a dull market.
! The f1nanciers gratefully responded by
keeping the bank rate down against the
pressure of French gold Withdrawals,
that time Philip was fighting the
Frenchmen at The Hague.
he has saved money now, and made
a little. He is comfortably of, with a
pleasant small house in the shadow of
the OLD abbey overlooking the river at
| westminster and pleasant little coun-
Try mouse with large garden not far
from MS friend, Lloyd Georges Oloyd
George is a rich mani fine estate in
Surrey.
/ Wins Praise for His Courage.
When he was fighting on The Hague
front the classes which had formerly
denounced him and all his kind went
INTO raptures over him and praised him
ior MS courage. But that Is like saving
tnat Iunney was brave to fight DENIM
Sey. Snowden had been spelling for
that fight. He likes the French no
more than the old islanders liked them
IN Bonaparte's day. In two words.
ridiculous" and ''grotesque," he wtped
out the memory OF the spacious 6ays
Mnen austen Chamberlain. of Anglo
french naval pact fame, had looked INTO
the eyes OF la belle France and said he
loved her like a mistress (which even
the French thought a little extrava-
gant. He sounded the tom-toYns
struck out from the shoulder. unloosed
ms hercest epithets and demanded
Brltains rights-or chaos.
:. he TOOK his political life in his hands
~ was narrow shave. If he had not
succeeded there would not have haen
wanting those to cry: There! See what
comes OF letting crude, ill-manered
parochial Socialist loose among the
great statesmen of Europe. He doesn't
even know how to behave He has
onended BRAND, outraged Mussolini
broken Stresemann's heart and set the
CLOCK OF the liquidation of the war
BACK decade. Kick him Quit"
But he succeeded, and nothing suc-
ceeds ike success. His Opponents ar
Inc hague knew they had more to lose
tnah 10 gain by standing out against
MIN and letting the Young plan perish
IN saving their own bacon they saved
! his as we'll
Retired generals drank his health In
cup port wine. Orchards wrote let
t tSls 10 tne papers saying that that is
tne stun to give the damned foreigner
ne was the Saint George, waving the
Union Jack as he rode against the
Iootpads trying to pick the rockets
OF the island race.
Fighting Qualities Stressed,
:, But that was yesterday. The mil
IloIareS, while paying him lip-serI ice
az ulnners and in their newspal ers
were Always a trifie uneasy. Those
nghtlng qualities, that iron inflexibjlitv
that ruthless financial logic, caa lie
applied IN other fields besides those
Oh international affairs. ThiJ man IS
aIter all, Socialist. He is a doctrl-
mare free trader who wants to abolish
al tariffs and safeguarding duties
he wants to milk the rich for rhe
penent OF the workers and the harassed
mlddle class. True, the Conservative
Liberal opposition has a curb rein on
nun while the Macdonald government
lacks majority, but tomorrow a Labor
government may be In power, anu
tnen the Iron Chancellor will have
a free hand-and.
Well, the millionaires pat him or the
back, and call on him, pay him lin
service at banquets and praise him in
their newspapers. But they are uneasy
AS for Snowden, he has hard nuts
10 crack IN the twin problem of taxes
ana tafins In the next budget, and on
the way he cracks them the populari.- ],
OF the Macdonald regime is going larus-
~ TO depend-that and the Labor-So-
claliSt party'S chance of presently per-
suading the people OF England to give
1t parliamentary majority and real
power.
Premier Macdonald of England has
received the freedona NJ ShaR9ald Urr