Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

That the Hoover administration is
the paramount issue in the 1880 cam
paign has always been the claim of the
Democratic National Committee But 1t
has remained for Claude @. Bowers,
Houston Convention keynoter, to give
open and Official utterance to that view.
The New York editor historian broad
cast last night q frontal attack on the
Hoover regime under the title of THE
Collapse Of an Administration" The
Republicans resolutely refuse to accept
the President and his record as issues
in q purely congressional campaign.
They contend that the time to put
Hooverism on trial before the bar Of
public opinion will be 1882. The
achievements or failures Of @. o. P.
Congress, say MeSSrs. FeSs, Lucas, Wat
son, Moses ct al, are the things, and
the only things, on which the voters. in
Ielecting a new House and Senate, should
be called upon to express judgment.
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Evidently President Hoover's refusal
to intrude himself into the campaign
Clifford Pinchot to the contrary not
withstanding-t based on this theory.
It Is, nevertheless, fact that in count
less House and Senate fights all over
the country Republican candidates
haven't hesitated to .trot out their
support of the administration" as a
good reason for giving them return
tickets AS far as anybody knows, Mr..
Hoover has confined his interference"
in the campaign to two instances. Early
in the game he wrote letter to a Ten
neSSee Republican member Of the House
of Representatives publicly thanking
him for supporting the White House on
Muscle Shoals legislation. After Dwight
Morrows primary contest-if that is
the word-the President let 1t be known
that he hoped New Jersey would honor
itself by sending "Lindys" father-in-
law to the Senate. The Hoover view
in a nutshell, is that the 1880 cam
paign is not his baby and that from
every standpoint it would be injudi-
cious for him to assume its fatherhood.
In day or two two more of our
European Ambassadors - Walter E.
Edge, from Paris, and Irwin B. Laugh
| lin, from Madrid-will be in Wash
ington to commune with the President
and the Secretary Of State. Though
Uncle Sam is not directly involved in
any of the Old Worlds sorely troubled
! affairs, the universal mess lover there"
| bristles with issues and possibilities
which might at almost any moment
| demand our vigorous interest. Fred
| eric M. Sackett, American Ambassador
| to Germany, has Just concluded a visit
| in Washington. The White House and
State Department got from the Ken
lucky diplomat their first closeup of
by our official observer at Berlin. Mr..
Sackett is a bull, not a bear, on Ger
many's future.
| II X %*
Anybody who wants to know ex-
actly the genesis and status OF the
United States interest in Palestine can
derive a world of information from
State Department pamphlet It's
entitled 1.-THE Palestine Mandate Con-
vention" and contains the full docu-
mentary record of our negotiations
with Great Britain for a treaty guar
anteeing American rights in the Holy
Land. Readers of the pamphlet will
encounter a disclosure Of which hardly
| one in a million Americans has knoWl-
edge. In January, 1922, during the
| Washington Armament Conference,
Lord then Mr. Balfour. who headed
| the British delegation, urged Secre-
| tary Hughes to give early considera-
| ton to the Palestine treaty. In a
letter to Hughes Balfour said: "At
| the Paris Peace Conference always
warmly advocated that the Palestine
mandate should be undertaken, not ny
| Britain, but by the United States.
i Though subsequent events have shown
me that such a policy would never
have commended itself to the Ameri-
can people still think that so far
| as the Middle East is concerned. 1t
would have been the best"
| \
Two distinguished members OF the
Washington diplomatic corps-Ambas-
| sador Won Prittwitz OF Germany and
| Minister WI of China-have just re-
| turned to their posts after protracted
absences. DIR. Won Prittwitz ends a
three months leave in hts fatherland,
and DR.. WI Is back from long siege
Of duty as China's principal delegate
to the League of Nations. The German
Ambassador was on the high seas while
the new Reichstag was sustaining the
Hindenburg Bruenins cabinet BY . sub