Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
DAWES PUTS PUNCH
into FARLEY PLANS.
U. S. Ambassador Extraor-
binary Gets Ready to Make
Things Hum.
BY FRANK HAvILAND KING.


LONDON R-When high ENJOYS of
the United States, the British Empire,
France. italy and Japan assemble on
january Fl in the royal gallery of the
House of Lords to inaugurate the FIVE
power ornaments conference, another
chapter can be written in the eventful
public career of Charles Gates Dawes,
Ambassador. extraordinary and plenipo-
Tertiary to the historic Court Of st.
James.
Ambassador extraordinary" is formal
parlance, but in this particular case the
title fits the subject with rare exact
ness.
He's Had Lots Of Experience"
The Ohio-born banker, soldier, former
Vice President, international negotia-
tor and even composer, to whom Chi
cago is home, certainly is not formal
and he makes no claims as a diplo-
matist, in the accepted sense Of the
word, but he Is, nevertheless, an Am
bassador extraordinary"
I'm no diplomatist, but I've had a
lot of experience" Dawes told reporters
on his arrival in London last June.
AS chief of Uncle Sans most impor~
tant diplomatic mission abroad, he has
lived up to his reputation as an ex-
trsordinary American.
For six months Ambassador Dawes
has wreStled with the preliminaries OF
the approaching ornaments confer
ence. Whether success or failure at
tends the negotiations, much credit will
go to him for building, or at least as
Sembling,s In Europe the conference ma
chine.
This labor has called into play from
the moment of his arrival in England
the Ambassadors intense activity,
forcefulness, optimism and good will in
carrying out the of11cial mission as
signed to him by President Hoover. The
I, first lord Of the admiralty, A. v. Alex
ander summed up what seemed to be
Great Britain'S valuation of Dawes when
he told of his own first impression OF
the Ambassador on the occasion of his
| country. This fellow means business, "
said Alexander.
Violates Diplomatic Niceties.
He not only meant business, but a
| new and human informality in the
| conduct of American foreign relations
as handled by the London embassy
| Secretaries and attaches at GrosvenoT
Gardens say he violates roughshod some
! of the niceties and the inconsequentials
Of so-called diplomacy, but they swear
! by him.
Already there is a crop of Dawes
anecdotes, few of them known beyond
the small circle of the embassy.
One of the Ambassadors first con-
facts with the British foreign ONCE
showed no formal diplomat had arrived
| from America. Gen. and Mrs. Dawes
brought their favorite dog-a Chow
named Chung-to England, but six
months quarantine for dogs is necessary
here. Dawes made no effort to avoid
the regulations.
ut is a good omen for Anglo Amer
| lean relations he told the British for
| eign minister, that the only problems
between us are dogs and dehaltantes."
American Northumberland dowagers
lit must be remembered, flutter to
| London every Summer for presentation
at court. wedding them out is a per-
ennial problem of high diplomacy.
Last Summer when the Ambassador
rushed back to London from Scotland
where ne textended President Hoover's
| invitation for an American visit to
| Prime Minister Macdonald, he arrived
! at the embassy early in the morning.
That evening he was to address the dis
tinguisIned and influential membership
of the Pilgrims Society. Travel worn
| and unShaven, he started putting the
! finishing touches on his address, which
was probably the most important public
announcement by an American Am
bassador in London for many years.
: Sets Own Presidents.
Before settling to his task. Dawes
ordered in a barber.
Where shall we receive the barber"
asked one secretary of another. There
Is no precedent"
Show him right in here, interrupted
the general and the barber took his
| kit in the great ambasSadorial once
where the portraits of American ENJOYS
OF other generations looked down as he
lathered and shaved the ambasSadorial
beard. The barber barbered and Dawes
worked on.
1T like that mans work." said the
Ambassador. when the job was done.
! Have him come again."
| Thus Dawes shattered all sorts of
| minor customs and formaltties. He
walked up and down the embassy stairs
| instead OF taking the elevator, ran the
| lift" himself or used Helen Maria
| language when he couldn't operate the
| gadgets. To the establishment of minor
attendants, he grabbed his overcoat
and put 1t on without assistance. He
told rows Of office boys who sprang to
attention every time he passed to sit
| down and stay set.
He dislilced the formal display. "Hipl
Hipl Hooray! Now all of you sit