Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20

No matter what you hear to the con-
trary, the age of miracles is not past
! Borah and the State Department are
in agreement on a foreign policy. They
see eye to eye on what Uncle Sam
| ought to do-and not to do-in
! Nicaragua. The Hoover-StimSon pro-
gram Of combining protection Of Ameri-
| can citizens to those within the coastal
| area has the approval of the Senate
foreign relations chairman. That will
mean much when Nicaragua, as 1t is
sure to be, is on the calendar next
Winter. Another potent Republican
| Progressive, Bob" La Toilette, baby of
| the Foreign Relations Committee, gives
the administration program his OK,
too. 1t was a foregone conclusion that
Senator johnson would see red, white
and blue when he heard of the Presi-
dents refusal to extend general pro-
lection" to Americans in Nicaragua.
Hiram isn't in the habit Of supporting
anything bearing the Hoover hallmark.
AS long ago as when Marines were am
pushed last Winter, johnson was loaded
for bear on our whole Nicaraguan policy.
He has a real issue now, and may be
depended upon to tackle it without
gloves.
Undoubtedly, the President is relying
unrWervedly on the judgment of his
Secretary of State in this new and
nasty Nicaraguan mess. Col. Stimson
was on duty for many months at Ma
| nagua in 1927, as President Coolidge S
special representative. He knows Mica
ragua and the NicaraguanS as few
| Americans do. Besides, he is a soldier.
When he talks of the difficulties in
herent in military operations in the
bad lands, where Sandino'S ruthless
aSsassins" are killing and looting, Slim
son speaks by the book. The formation
Of the Guardia Nacional under Ameri-
can command was part and parcel of
the pacification scheme Col. Stimson
| evolved after the Nicaraguan civil war
of 1926-27. He is filled with correspond
ing faith in the Guardia's capacity to
cope with the marauding Sandinistas
better than the Marines and in the OBJ
legation incumbent upon Nicaragua to
do the Job with their own resources.
II Hoover had Congress on his hands
at this witching hour, and especially
the Senate, Nicaragua would vault back
into the controversial limelight with a
vengeance. Interventionists and anti
interventionistS would be making vio-
lent whoopee. Tom Heflin would not
be there to shrek in tempestuous tone
be killed in "Nickarawgy," but other
voices as raucous would be yelling for
withdrawal of the Marines, now and
forever. There Is no unanimity OF view
on these questions, as the administra-
ton will discover just as soon as Con-
gresS has opportunity to let of steam.
There's a pretty formidable element
which thinks that the implications and
obligations of the Monroe Doctrine re-
quire the United States either to WELD
the big stick in Latin America or clear
the way for foreign governments to- do
so, whenever and wherever their own
nationals are imperiled.
Ambassador Debuchi of Japan is en-
tertaining at dinner tomorrow night in
honor of Ambassador Ferrara of Cuba,
who is about to leave for the Far East.
Senior Ferrara has been accredited as
Cuba's envoy to Japan and Is going
there to establish legation, which will
be left to a charge daffaires. Havana
and Toxic discovered that they have
some mutual economic interests, which
may, among other things, result in the
settlement of japanese workers in
Cuba, so they've decided that their re-
lations would be facilitated by diplo-
matte intercourse. Senior Ferrara Is
considered by many of his Washington
colleagues as the most aStute foreign
diplomatist on duty here. He Is an
Italian by birth, but adopted Cuban
nationality and fought for the islands
independence In 1898. Ferrara plans
to return to Washington via Siberia and
Russia, after his official Sojourn in
Japan.
II y
Miss Louise Stanley, chief Of the Bu-
reau of Home Economies at the Depart
ment of Agriculture, is in regular cor
respondence with thousands of the Ma
tons housewives. Her mailbag now
and then contains q gem. The other
dav q woman wrote IN 70 ask II the de-
,sasts,.~y,f $500 r6,,l,slsraa1lN s.a SIaf