Evening star., 1933-03-13
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

emergency and correlated Federal az
fairs, is the sort Of thing F. D. r. has
it in mind to do every SO often, when
the state of the Union warrants it. He
instituted the system at Albany in con-
nection with New York State matters
and resorted to it with effective results
whenever 1t was necessary to build fires
back home" behir3d legislators who
weren't giving the Governor the support
he thought he was entitled to in the
public interest. The President has an
mcommonly vibrant and buoyant radio
style" He likes the Inicrophone, has
mastered all its little tricks, and puts
things over persuasively.
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Yosuke Matsuoka, who fought Japan's
recent unsuccessful battles at the League
Of Nations, is in England, headed for
the United States. where he will arrive
on March %. Although he is to re-
main in this country three weeks before
sailing for Japan in mid-April. Mr..
Matsuoka declined scores of invitations
to make public addresses here. He will
make single exception, in favor Of the
University of Oregon, at Eugene, where
he was once an Undergraduate. Mr..
Matsuoka is telling interviewers in Lon
sons decision to keep the United States
fleet on the West Coast is "deplorable."
He fears 1t is "nable to add fuel to the
already bad resentment in Japan against
America"
Many members of Congress. in both
House and Senate, who have opposed or
will oppose the economy drive against
veterans appropriations feel obligated
by 1882 campaign pledges. In in
Vulnerable constituencies throughout
the Union the soldier vote" Is factor
which politicians cannot afford to ig-
more. Plenty of them know it means
ruin to offend it. Opposition to the
Presidents drastic proposal to lop of
several hundred millions from Spanish
War and World War grants, especially
In non-service connected cases, Is not
based entirely on political considera-
tions. The arguments that cessation of
aggravate misery and place new bur-
dens on public charity is carrying
good deal OF weight on Capitol Hill.
French Strother, President Hooyer's
administrative assistant and literary
research aide, who has Just succumbed
to pneumonia in Washington, was cne
of the two Southern Democrats with
whom the late Republican Chief Exc
cutive surrounded himself. The other
was his military aide, Col. Campbell
Hodges OF Louisiana. Mr.. Strother, q
native of Missouri, was OF old Vir-
ginia ancestry. A quiet, modest, scholar
ly soul, he had endeared himself to
a widening circle of friends in WASH
ington at the end of three years serv-
ice In the White House. Strother in
tended to devote himself to novel writ
ing for the rest Of his life. His maiden
effort in that field, Maid Of Athens"
appeared In 1892.
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Senator Ashurst, Democrat, of Ari-
zona, is using the Congressional Record
in novel way. Instead of replying
individually to the mountains of tele-
grams fired at him and other Sena-
tors by veterans who resent President
Roosevelt's proposed slash of the bud
get, Senator Ashurst asks "all senders
sional Record to treat the following" as
q reply:
Telegram received. President Roose-
velt Is the friend of the veterans of our
various wars and he will deal Justly
and fairly with all the ex-service men.
A crisis Of tremendous proportions and
with terrible results has been reached
In our national destiny and all citizens
must now make sacrifices for the coun-
try's welfare. know that the ex-
service men whose valor and courage
saved our country will follow President
Roosevelt, who IS our leader, for we
must and should grant him full power
and authority to act without yestric-
ton e the emergency arises. Presi-
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