Evening star., 1933-05-03
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Not since he addressed the Nation
by radio on the banking crisis, on the
night of March IL, has any utterance
OF President Roosevelt been awaited
with more interest Cor anxiety than
the remarks he will address to the
Chamber OF Commerce of the United
States in Washington tomorrow. Far
more than anything else that could
possibly fall from his lips at this
word of the Presidents Intentions
about imitation. Will he exercise the
sweeping powers Congress is about to
give him? Has he sought them merely
to prevent the abuse of such authority,
If lodged in less responsible hands than
those of the executive? To what ex-
tent will he employ them. if at all,
and when? Those are the questions mil
lions upon millions of Americans. fear
ing the effect upon their personal lives
and fortunes of so-called "unSound
money" want answered from the only
quarter which can answer them au-
thoritatively. The increasing bulk of
opinion, even among persons in and out
of Congress who favor giving Mr..
Roosevelt infiationary sway, is that %
he will not invoke it until absolutely
necessary, and 90 at no time do so
to any degree which would Bryanize
the currency system. Just the same,
Mr.. and Mrs. Average Man. north and
south, east and west, would feel better
if confidence on that score were to
be fortified by reassurances from the
President himself.
Mr.. Roosevelt Is credited with a de-
sire to have Congress off his hands by
the end of the first week in June
roughly five weeks from now. House
and Senate will have to move rapidly
enough to accomplish between now and
then what the White House has in
store for them if the projected ad-
journment is to be brought about at
the time indicated. To that end sew
eral important measures are not to
be pressed in the remaining in
terval. Apparently they include the
Black thirty-hour week bill, the World
Court and the Great Lakes-St. Law
renee waterway. What the President
gency legislation in harbor before
Summer time. He believes an ensuing
period of legislative quiet for the
cember, not only will provide oppor-
tunity for the emergency program to
work out, but avert any possibility Of
clashes between the administration and
Congress at moment when national
tranquility Is indispensable. The
prayers Of ali concerned are that dur
ing the ensuing Summer and Autumn
the lorged-for turn In the times will
truly manifest itself. If it doesn't
many a man fears that Mr.. Roosevelt
may find himself subjected to pressure
for extreme action which otherwise
he'd be in position to resist.
An interesting coincidence figures in
the transfer of Hugh Gibson from the
ambassadorship to Belgium to the am
bassadorship to Brazil. Belgium two
years ago transferred to Washington
its present Ambassador here, M. Paul
May, after he'd served at Rio de
Janeiro. Another semi Belgo- American
diplomatic exchange has just taken M.
Paul Claudel, lately French Ambassador
in Washington, to Brussels as Frances
envoy to Belgium. Hugh Gibson, emf
| nent career man, succeeds in Brazil
Edwin v. Morgan, another career dip
lomatiSt, who has held continuous am
bassadorial rank longer than any man
III tuc OAdteo StdcSS COIcA6u SeIF1cC'
He first went to the Rio de Janetro
embassy Il years ago. Mr.. Morgan
reached the retirement age in 1929, but
his tour of duty was extended by Presi-
dent Hoover. A few weeks ago the
veteran Ambassador. submitted his
resignation.
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Women elected Herbert Hoover Pres.
ident five years ago, it used to be said
yet they waited for four years IN vain
for patronage recognition. accorded u
far fuller measure hv Franklin d