Evening star., 1932-08-31
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

One of the items in Vice Admiral
Nomura's impending good will mission
to the United States concerns Japans
resentment of the protracted sojourn
of the United States Fleet in Pacific
waters. Originally the feet, after con-
Guiding scheduled maneuvers, should
have broken up last May, leaving on
the West Coast only the Battle Fleet,
! which is permanently stationed there.
Then, on account of the situation in the
Far East, the Scouting Fleet, instead of
being sent back to the Atlantic, re-
ceived orders to remain in the Pacific
until next October. There are reports
in Washington that the full naval
forces of the country, comprising the
United States Fleet, will be retained on
the West Coast at least until next
January. When Japan hears about
this-if the reports are well founded
Nipponese ire, already thoroughly
aroused, may be expected to boil over
afresh.
Representative Fred A. Britten, late
chairman and now ranking Republican
minority member of the House Naval
Affairs Committee, thinks the United
States Fleet ought to be kept in Pa
ciflc waters all the time. The Chicago
big navyite would also like to see the
fleet based on the San Francisco region
rather than on the Los Angeles region,
as it now is, and all its maneuvers con-
Quoted from and around the Golden
Gate Representative Britten remem-
bers Admiral Nomura well from the
japanese sailormans previous sojourn
In the United States The best sort OF
good will service the admiral could
render in this country" says Britten,
would be to propose that the 5-5-3
ratio of naval strength respectively as
signed to America, Great Britain and
Japan should henceforth be accepted
by them in letter as well as in spirit
and be rigidly adhered to. Incidental
ly, the American people cannot be re-
minded too often that it isn't the Brit
ish and japanese who have exceeded
their rights under the 5-5-3 arrange
ment. It's the United States which
has failed to take advantage OF its own
rights"
DR.. Theodore Lewald, former Ger
man minister of the interior, who
called on President Hoover yesterday. is
Germany's expert on foreign exposi-
tions In better days, when nations
went in for international expositions
in a big way, Germany maintained q
permanent commission for dealing with
such affairs and DR.. Lewald was at
Its head. He was German imperial
commissi 1ner at the last great Paris
exposition in 1900, and In 1904 at the
st. Louis worlds fair. DR.. Lewald came
to the United States this Summer as
, leader of the German Olympic games
delegation III his capacity of president
of the national commission on sports
and athletics. To President Hoover, a
! Californian. DR.. Lewald waxed en-
| thusiastic over the management OF the
Los Angeles olympiad. Berlin. will be
, Olympic host in 1886, and DR.. Lewald
expressed the hope that American
youth and Drawn would be extensively
, represented there.
France ard the United States have
| locked horns over a new commercial
| treaty. Tne French are making de-
| mands which aren't so easy to grant
within the framework of OUR skyscraper
tariff law. Among the concessions the
State Department Is considering is
greater protection for French styles
Every season score or more Of New
York designers go to Paris, copy the
latest modes at Longchamps or Auteuil
and sell limitations on Fifth avenue
within a few hours after their return
| The State Department Is prepared to
put a stop to this piracy, but doesn't
know Just how. Some of Secretary
Stimson's wisecrackers say that Am
bassador Edee and his Paris star may