Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-13

President Hoover and Secretary Slim
son are ardently hopeful that the pipe
Ambassador Dawes smokes at Paris next
week will turn out to be a pipe of
peace. All doubt of the administra-
TONS determination to throw full
American influence into the League Of
Nations Council meeting Is removed by
Gen. Dawes participation in the pow
wow His formal instructions are to
hang around and wait until the Council
pages him, but this official arrange
ment is a good deal of a bluff. Its
main purpose is to soothe the nerves
Of Senator Hiram johnson and others,
who think that Uncle Sam is being
bootlegged into the League, body and
soul. 1t goes without saying that no
serious decisions will be taken at Paris,
with a view to claiming up the Japanese
and Chinese dogs of war, without con-
sultation with Ambassador Dawes. Hell
and Maria" isn't much of a fellow to
sit by with folded arms while big things
| are being done. When the fireworks
| begin, it Is a 100-to-1 shot that the
composer banker soldier diplomat will
/ not be far from the scene OF action, anx-
ious and ready to take vigorous hand
in the fray. In Washington's inter-
national set the conviction prevails
that America holds the key to the stu
| alton. 1t my fall to Gen. Dawes his
toric lot to use 1t and unlock the door
10 a peaceful settlement Of the Slno-
japanese conflict.
What is about to happen in Paris Is
almost a counterpart of the famous
! conference of Ambassadors" convened
| in London in July,hl914, on the eve of
| the World War. Sir Edward Grey, then
British foreign secretary, thought a
meeting of diplomatic minds could avert
the rapidly approaching conf1agratlon.
But Austria had sent Serbia the ulti-
matum which the Germanic powers
knew would make war inevitable, and
the Ambassadors conferred in vain. IL
| is a different set Of circumstances unoer
which statesmen are now fighting Tor
the preservation of peace. Led by the
/ League of Nations, Japan and CHINA are
! confronted by demands backed by prac-
tically the whole civilized world, whereas
only half a dozen European powers put
their heads together in 1914 to prevent
the outbreak of war. On all hanoS III
| Washington, beth American and foreign,
the atmosphere is tense with eX-
pectancy. Another week, and we SHOULD
know whether the covenant OF the
League and the Kellogg pact are what
they are cracked up to be, or scraps OF
paper.
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Former Gov. Harry c. Byrd Of Vir-
ginia has been in Washington LOOKING
over the Democratic presidential s1tua-
ton. The Old Dominion Is going to
send a Byrd delegation to the 1882 con-
vention on the off chance that dead
lock might give the Winchester apple
grower editor statesman first place. II
Byrd can't make the grade, the move
ment sponsored by the Portsmouth Star
| for a Baker and Byrd ticket Will be
nushed to the limit. Publisher Nor
man r. Hamilton, who has copyrighted
the slogan Baker and Byrd-TWo BIS
and Honey" thinks that Newton Baker
is destined by the logic of convention
DEVELOPMENTS to bring home the bacon
that Baker is another Wilson; that ne
J can win next year. and that Harry Byro
4 is the man TO help him do 1t.
X y
If Mr.. Justice Brandeis,. who is 70
years old today, Is deluged WIN tele-
grams of congratulation, 1t VIII not
only be because the eminent Jurlst mas
a world of well-wishers, but also be-
cause one of the telegraph companies
has been drumming up business IN MS
worthy name. Numbers OF persons III
washington and elsewhere received
Telegram" early this week reminding
them that Mr.. Brandeis is celebrating
his diamond jubilee on November 10
and suggesting that you might ike
to wire him."
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Italian Ambassador de MARITIME ano
his staff are hopeful that there VII
not be, during the impending Amerl-
can visit of Mussolinis foreign minis
ter, Signor Dino Grand, contnu-
1 ance Of the recent mix-up OF his name
! with Mahatma Gandhi. Conversation
ally and in newspaper type Grand ano
d&ndhi have been coming into regular