Evening star., 1933-10-05

Those who have followed the career
of former Representative r. Walton
Moore of Virginia predict for him val
liable service as Assistant Secretary of
State. Returning to public life at the
age of "a, he is considered practical
expert in many matters that will come
under his jurisdiction. AS member OF
the committee of the House dealing with
foreign affairs, he is believed to have
had first-hand contact with the field for
which he has been drafted. Special
emphasis is placed on the fact that he
is personal friend of Secretary OF State
Hull
TT is a case of the Office seeking the
man, for Mr.. Moore was in no sense a
candidate declares the Roanoke
World-News, with the tribute that "his
acquaintance in official circles and with
the diplomatic corps is probably unsur-
passed by any one who has not in re-
cent years been holding public Office. :"
That paper adds that "he brings both
legal and diplomatic training to the
State Department" The Norfolk Vlr-
ginian-Pilot states that sit is hard to
think Of any one in our public life whose
temperament. ideas and principles OF
political action are in happier accord
with those of Secretary Hull; that the
two are liberals of the same Jeferson1an
school. and are at one in the view that
the United States has major role to
play in world politics and world eco
nomics."
He is described by the Baltimore Sun
as one who had been known as "a legis-
lator of calm perspicacity and sound
Judgment, who did his own thinking
and who helped not a few of his COL
leagues to do theirs" The Sun believes
that che will contribute in a substantial
way to the working out of the policies
to which the State Department Is COM
mitted," and makes the comment on his
experience: He served for number OF
years on the House Committee having
to do with our foreign relations, and
but for his voluntary retirement from
Congress in 1881, he would now have
been chairman of that body. He was
accustomed while in the House to keep
a watchful eye on American policy IN
| the Caribbean, and his attitude at that
time suggests that he will be cordially
| in sympathy with the program Secre-
| tary Hull has initiated for the better
| ment of our relations and our trade
with our neighbors in this hemisphere.
The new appointee is viewed by the
| New York Sun as "a sound, practical
| politician, bosom friend and stanch sup
porter of the Secretary" while the Prov
| idence Bulletin declares: His appoint
ment to succeed DR.. Raymond Moley,
resigned, holds a significance which will
| not be lost on close observers. Mr.
Moore is an old-line Virginia Demo-
crat, who was serving in the State Sen
ate when Mr.. Moley was gurgling IN ms
cradle. He was Cleveland presidential
! elector in the 1892 convention and an
assistant general counsel to the U. s.
r. r. Administration from 1918 to 1919,
! when he was elected to fill vacancy
in the Sixty-sixth Congress and re-
mained in the Lower House until 1881.
! There he served as q member OF the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, in which
subject he has had q deep interest. He
| Is reported to be especially well In
| formed on war debts" Adding that the
| development Is "a complete victory for
Secretary Hull" the Bulletin observes
"the new deal with an old pack OF
cards."
The Richmond Times-Dispatch holds
| that "his qualifications for high service
| to his country at disturbed period In
| its development are unquestioned." That
paper continues: During a busy life as
one of the leading lawyers Of the East.
| he found time to delve deeply into his
tory. Not only does he know the view
! points Of the several nations with which
| the United States must deal most con-
stantly, but he appreciates the reasons
| for their particular outlooks"on life.
Long ago the late Franklin &.
Lane, Secretary Of TIA 1nteri0L updex