Evening star., 1932-01-01
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

1t goes without saying that no man
| in the whole United States awaits the
| fortunes that 1882 has in store for him
with greater interest or anxiety than
| Herbert Hoover. The tWelvemonth just
| born Is his year of destiny. His place
| in history will be fixed by what it brings
! forth in November next. The President
| faces the unknown in undiminlshed
| fortitude. He would be more than hu-
man If now and then In his oemeanor
and his contacts with people Mr.. Hoo
yer did not reveal traces of the lncom-
parable stress under which the PreSl-
! dent of the United States must neceS-
sarily labor at this juncture. But no
| evidence is visible or deducible that
| the Chief" has lost his nerve, his con-
! fidence or his determination to heW to
| the line. let the chips fall where they
NAV. Mr.. Hoover has indicated that
| he has certain fixed views with refer
| ence to what is required to cope WIN
| both the domestic and international
situations in which the American
| people find themselves. He Is pam
| fully aw re that Congress is in stubborn
| opposition to various Hoover pollcleS
The guess is here hazarded that before
| long the country will find the PreSl-
dent battling firmly for the right, as he
u
/ and evincing his readiness to stand or
fall by the consequences. There will be
no Rooseveltian Spectacular1Sm about
| it, but plenty Of tenacity.
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Not since the halcyon days Of the
Wilson administration have Democrats
assembled in the high fettle which m
spires the party hosts now conVergmg
| on Washington for next weeks Jackson
Cay festivities and the National Com
mittee meeting The banquet gives
every promise of being a genuine love-
feast with confidence of 1882 victory
dripping all over the place. Hope mas
practically been abandoned that either
| Gov. Roosevelt or Newton D. Baker Will
grace the dinner table, but with Al
Smith, Jim Cox, Bert Ritchie, Joe
Robinson, Harry Byrd, Jim Ham Lewis,
/ Cordell Hull and John w. Davis on the
scene there'll be plenty Of opportunity
for favorite sons to preen themselves
and cavort in the fierce limelight that
| beats so agreeably upon a presidential
possibility. The National Committee IS
hopeful that a Kilkenny fight may be
avoided at its meeting the morning
after the Jackson day dinner-that II
| there's any hangover from that func-
| ton it will be purely of the harmony
brand. Ed Hurley OF Chicago, who
| hypnotized the Republicans into taking
| their convention to the Windy City,
| thinks he'll have no trouble In be-
quilting his own party into doing
| likewise.
Local diplomatic quarters are buzzing
| with gossip about the underlying rea-
son for Ambassador w. Cameron FORBES
decision to resign his post in Japan at
this witching hour. On many hands
can be heard the suggestion that his re-
| tirement is a palpable protest against
Japanese action in Manchuria and the
breaking of pledges given to the United
States and the rest OF the world. EX-
perienced diplomatists point out that
under the circumstances not many men
| would care to remain in Toxic. Mr.
| Forbes impending departure is not, OF
course, tantamounG to the withdrawal OF
American diplomatic representation
from Japan. But it's third cousin to
that procedure, and Nippon may be ex-
pected-though not offlcially--to view it
i'll just that light. Perhaps Ambassador
Forbes feels little remorse over hav-
! ing embarked upon his vacation trip to
the United States In September at al
most the very hour Japan's conquest of
M2nchuria set in. He returned to Toxic
pell-mell during the Autumn.
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If Mrs. Clifford Pinchot eventually
takes the field in the fifteenth Pennsyl-
vania district against Representative
| Lsuis T McFadden, the Governors red
| haired lady is hardly likely to fight 1t
out on a pro- Hoover platform. Every
body knows there's little love lost be-
| tween the Montague HOOyerS and the
Capulet Pinchots. The feud is sup
posed to have It's roots In wartime
Food Administration days, when Mr..