Evening star., 1932-02-25

II 1t isn't ia crise" (depression) 4,
It's "la brise" 0he north Wind that
the Genevese talk about nowadays. La
brise," which sweeps down from the
Alps with galelike fury and whips
across Lake Geneva in midwinter Tor
days at a time, entities the League
metropolis to be known as the Chicago
of Switzerland-the Windy City. Ac-
custorned as Conference Americans are
to cold weather, ia brise" sets their
blood to tingling. their ears and feet
to freezing and themselves to hugging
the radiators in their hotel rooms. The
northern blasts are CHARACTERISTIC OF
this southwestern corner OF William
Tells land They must be responsible
for the large number OF rosy-cheeked
babies, boys and girls hereabouts.
Geneva is the home town Of Nine.
Marc Peter, wife of the Swiss Min
lister at Washington. Her husband and
she still own a villa on the outskirts
of the city and spend alternate Sum-
mers there Nine. Peter Is the daughter
Of a former president of the Swiss
Confederation, the late Adrien sLach-
email. Her brother, Adrien Lachenal
II, Is one of the leaders of the Swiss
bar. He is a member OF both the Pro-
vincial Parliament Of the Canton of
Geneva and of the Federal Parliament
at Bern. The Lachenal ancestral
home fronts Lake Geneva on the Quai
Mont Blanc, in the heart Of the hotel
on clear days the famous Alpine peak
Is visible across the shimmering waters
Of the lake and the snoW-capped
heights Of intervening Alpine ranges.
Herr Adolf Hitler, who by the time
these observations reach the United
States may be pitted against Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg for the presi-
dency of Germany. has an unoficial
observer at the Disarmament Confer
ence. He Is Maj. Gen. Franz Ritter
Won Epp, retired, who came down from
Munich to keep an eye peeled on
Chancellor Bruening'S delegation, The
general, who commanded a Bayarian
regiment during the World War, has
his own lightning rod up for the Reich
presidency, but has little expectation
Of achieving 1t. That the "Nazis" under
Hitler's leadership will win the forth
coming Prussian Diet elections, Won
Epp declares, Is a foregone conclusion.
They may not capture a majority. but
NAACy VIII obIh4A IAlC SAME enormous
strength, he claims. which they got in
the Reichstag landslide of September,
1880. We have the youth with US"
explains Gen. Won Epp, "and that
means power, sooner or later"
On the eve Of the opening of the
Disarmament Conference. the Arch
bishop of York, in Geneva from Eng
land on an ecclesiastical mission re-
opened the cantankerous European
controversy about war guilt" In a
sermon at the Cathedral of ST Pierre
the st. Peters of Calvinistic Prot
estantism-the archbishop advocated
erasure from the treaty Of Versailles
OF the clause fastening responsibility
for the war on the Germanic powers.
Ine eminent Anglican churchman.
who ranks just behind the Archbishop
OF Canterbury and, therefore, not far
from his Britannia majesty himself.
stirred up columns of corresuondence,
pro and con, in the London press, not
ably the Times. The thing he pro-
poses Is one of Germany's irreconcil-
able demands. Annihilation of "the
war-guilt lie," as they dub it, is the
main plank in the Hitler platform
The Archbishop OF York looks about
as little like clerical of high degree
| as imaginable. He Is fat, triple -chinned
| red-cheeked and jolly as tar. In the
early forties, his grace is the young
est man ever to attain the coveted
archbishopric of York. He speaks with
a silver tongue
y
Eight young women from Washing
ton-slx from the State Department
and one each from the War and Navy
Departments-are valuable adjuncts of
the American delegation at the arms