Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-23

Secretary StinnsOn viii not head the
I American delegation at the Geneva
/ Disarmament Conference because Of
more pressing preoccupatton with
world affairs in Europe and Asia. Even
/ II the japanese mess In Man
/ churia IS out Of the way by the time
| the conference conyenes, February q
/ and it Is by no means certain that it
/ viii be--reparations and war debts will
/ be to the controversial front during the
| Winter. Under those circumstances
I the President has decided it win be
! best to keep his Secretary Of State in
| Washington. There's another reason.
I The Hoover administration faces no
end Of attack during the impending
/ congressional fracss on 'ariOus foreign
pol e Iae moratorium win come
i uaoU. leavy fire, mainly Of Eiram
/ Johnson's Sindling. The Presidents
| naval program is due for bombardment,
/ particularly on the score Of its failure
/ to provide for the treaty Navy" Secre-
/ tary Stimson headed the American dele
cation which fought, bled and was
/ ready to die for the great god Parity
at London in 1880. When the shells
begin to fly on Capitol Hill the Com
m2nder in Chief believes it viii be
better for his principal treaty Navy
coad1utor 70 be in PennsylYaT1a avenue
than in the Alps.
/ Nobody IN washington is observing
/ the course Of events in Manchuria with
/ keener interest or broader knowledge
than M Paul Claudel poet Ambassa-
/ dor of France. M Claudel. came to the
United States in 1927 after five years
/ as French Ambassador in Toxic. Previ-
GUS TO that assignment he had spent
| 10 or II years in China. in the French
az Il kga r4an In
/ Guiding various points in faT-hung
/ Cathay. Philosopher and psychologist,
as well as versifieT, dramatist and Dip
I lomat, M Claudel knows his Orient and
/ Orientals from A to z, and is able as
| few men OF the West, to read between
I the lines Of what is going on Just now
| between Japan and China. II states
men with his insight into Asiatic men
/ tai processes had been on the JOB at
| Geneva during the past two months.
/ the League of Nations might have
emerged from the Manchurian nssco
with more Of its tail feathers IN place.
It doesn't make much difference,
personally. TO Representative Isaac
Bacharach. Republican, Of New Jersey,
that Jack" Garner, Democrat, Of Texas,
is to inherit the Speakers throne
vacated by lamented Nick" LongWorth.
BachaTach, Longworth and Garner
comprised 1.-THE Three Musketeers" or
the House Of Representatives, boon and
bosom buddies always and everywhere.
The Speaker to-be and the MEMBER Tor
Atlantic City have been intimate COM
rades mainly because OF their long
period OF Joint service on the Ways ana
Means Committee. Garner and Bach
arach are as far apart on tariff matters,
in which field both rank as experts. as
the Rio Grande is from the BOARDWALK,
and have tilted Of each other hammer
and-tongs for years. But. shutdown
generally finds them leaving the House
together, arm In arm, with the days
Ratchet buried.
Just after the assembling OF Con-
gresS there's TO be a World Court love-
/ feast in Philadelphia, under the au-
| spices OF the American Foundation.
/ This organization, founded by the late
| Edward w Box, has become the cflef
/ protagonist for ratification Of the pro-
/ tocol which would usher the United
| states into the Court. It's also tbs
| concern which Senator George III.
| Moses, irreeoncilable Republican, OF
| New Hampshire, hailed before a Senate
| Investigating Committee three or four
/ years ago on the ground that 10 was
I conducting meddlesome propaganda,
/ John w Davis win preside at the din-
ner meeting Julius H. Barnes viii
/ speak for the United States Chamber
/ Of Commerce. Spokesman OF the Amer
| lean Bar Association, the American
Federation. Of Labor and the National
| Grange viii also be heard. The State
/ Department, too, is to be represented
In the after dinner zpeechmaktng. The
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lence as "a whether President Hoover