Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-26
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

The fall of the Labor government
in England appears to be severe set
back to MIR. Hoover's ambitions for q
successful disarmament conference
next Winter For though Ramsay
Macdonald remains as premier in the
new coalition cabinet, and though he
Is the hero Of the hour in the present
British crisis, he is believed to have
sacrificed his political career on the
altar OF his country's need, and Mac
Donald was Mr.. Hoover's strong ally
In the intricate international maneuvers
relating to disarmament. Now, unless
all signs fail. the stop-gap government
in London will not last beyond Novem-
Der. A general election is promised, and
deserted by large section of his Labor
party, Macdonald will be out of office.
II that comes to pass, it means that Mr..
Hoover will have to negotiate his dis
armament plans all over again and
with British statesmen who may have
less sympathetic viewpoint. Eco
nomic factors, however, in world affairs
are running in favor of disarmament,
and in these crucial times 1t may well
happen that stern necessity will die
tate q mutual agreement for retrench-
ment in the costs of national defense.
$3.50
Edward T Clark, Mr.. Coolidge's boy
hood neighbor in Northampton, and
his confidential secretary during the
Coolidge term In the White House, now
in law practice at the Capital, recently
visited his former chief at Plymouth,
Vt, and subsequently was Mr.. Hoovers
guest at week end at the Rapidan.
National Committeeman Hilles of New
York, a leader in the draft Coolidge
-. 80 Do IN,
the following week at the President S
invitation. Mark Sullivan, Mr.. Hoover
journalistic conf1dant and mentor.
meantime made a pilgrimage to the
Coolidge shrine at Plymouth. This
sequence of events added fuel 70 the
flames Of the Coolidge gossip in Wash
ington and New York It is no secret
here that the insiders are certain that
the sage of Northampton has no de-
sire for his own nomination next year,
that they are positive he will not coun-
tenance any concerted effort to ditch
Mr.. Hoover and draft Coolidge, that
the latter cannot take himself out of
the pre-convention campaign. because
he is not in the campaign. In q word,
that all the Coolidge talk going the
rounds from one end OF the country
to the other is just another Of those
Coolidge myths
X X X
A syndicate newspaper article from
Plymouth from Mark Sullivan's pen
portraying the old Coolidge homestead
as a national mecca, with hundreds up
on hundreds of visitors daily, attracted
wide comment Mr.. Sullivan wrote
that every tourist asked the question
when viii Mr. Coolidge run again?"
and further that Plymouth neighbors
Abs,.R- Ary..1xy that nv CnNlidua will ra1y,
again and be elected again" and further
that Mr. Coolidge ION the evidence OF
the amazing tide of visitors to Ply
mouth is entitled to feel that large
numbers of his countryman would be
glad To have him President at any time
ne might choose TO run" Mr.. Hoover's
Journalistic friend, however. reported
that these Coolidge well-wishers ignore
| the obstacles to Mr.. Coolidge being
the Republican candidate In l932--ob-
! stacles residing In Mr.. Coolidge's own
mind, in the minds OF the Republican
party leaders and in the very nature
| of the situation That was the nuh
| of the article, the utter political i'm
| practicability If not impossibility OF
| nominating Mr.. Coolidge next year. and
above all the obstacles in Mr. Cool
idge's own mind"
It was inevitable that the inclusion
of the names of Newton d. Baker
of Cleveland, at present Franklin
Roosevelt's most formidable rival for
| the Democratic presidential nomi-
nation, and Barney Baruch, the Wal
Street Democrat, and Owen d. Young
! In the list of the eminent citizens in
| vited by Mr.. Hoover to serve on the
Advisory Committee" for Unemploy-
ment Relief, would precipitate discus
! sion Of the political implications pi
their invitation. The inclusion Of these
men on the COMMITTEES gives II BIZ
partisan tinge. Had they declined I.