Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-06

Although Eastertide, 1881, finds the
United States at profound peace with
the rest of the world, the Department
Of State has seldom concentrated on
more foreign affairs of moment than
are at present absorbing Secretary
Stimson and his staff. East and West,
North and South, events are pending or
impending which call for vigilant at
tention by Uncle Sam. A mere cata-
logue of them gives glimmer OF their
Importance. The Anglo-Franco-Ita Italian
naval accord amounts to a triple ALI
ance against the United States Nays
battleship policy. The European sea
powers want to reduce the maximum
size of capital ships from $4,000 to
Is, 900. America opposes that plan.
The proposed German Austrian customs
union sooner or later will involve us in
controversy with Germany as TO
whether American goods would be let
into the German market duty free I'M
der our Observation-Disclosures treaty
with the Reich. III the Far East, the
recrudescence Of China's demand for
abolition Of extraterritoriality and "the
unequal treaties" brings a ticklish issue
to the front.
Canadian merican relations, placid
as a mill pond on the surface, are, in
of grave questions. They are likely to
be taken up with more than ordinary
vigor after next months arrival of the
new Dominion Minister to the United
States, Mai. William D. Herridge. Mai.
Herridge will speak with uncommon au-
thority, because of the matrimonial al
lance he is about to contract. He will
bring to the Canadian legation here
as bride, after honeymoon in Eng
land, the sister of Prime Minister Ben
nett of Canada. When Brother-in law
Herridge turns up at the State Depart
ment to air Canadian grievances,
there1l be no doubt Of his right to
speak for the Ottawa government. Can
ada Is at more or less loggerheadS with
us over the st. Lawrence waterway, the
Hawley-Smoot tariff, border prohibi-
ton enforcement. our penchant for FIR
ing at Canadian rum runners on the
high seas and Americas alleged "su-
premacy" of the Dominions radio
waves.
Two members of the little cabinet"
Of the Hoover administration are runs
ming for office-not political Office, but
Just posts of honor in the corporation
of Yale University. One Is F. Trubee
Dawson, Assistant Secretary of War,
and the other is Thomas D. Thatcher,
SOllClbOT B6IlGIdl VI LIlS ..
Both have been nominated as Alumni
Fellows, to fill vacancies which will &C.
cur in June. Altogether, six candidates
have been put up for the two places
to be voted on. Dawson was graduated
honoris causa at Yale in 1918, and
Thacher got his A. B. in 1904, later
spending two years at the Law School.
X X X
DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary Of
the Interior, ran into a spell of goldfish
weather in Washington on his recent
return from the Hoover expedition into
the tropical Caribbean. The result was
that the sun-kissed edico-statesman,
like commoner clay, succumbed to a
cold A friend, observing DR.. Wilbur's
! sniffie, asked him why he didn't go to
bed Would, IL could find bed long
enough" calculated the Presidents
closest cabinet comrade. Wilbur towers
| several inches more than 6 feet into
space. Pullman berths and ordinary
| hotel beds are not made for him. He
is the biggest man in the administra-
ton.
Representative John @. Tilson's recent
! STAY at the White House, with his wife
and daughters, revives gossip that the
Republican House leader may be Mr..
Hoovers choice for the 1882 vice presi-
Dental nomination. The Connecticut
Yankee, who got that way despite the
handicap of birth in Tennessee, stands
ace-high in the Chief Executives es-
tenn. TIA President feels that I7lson