The Washington times., 1933-06-14

the Rumanians had said they would drink whatever
the Germans drank, and the French politely ottered
to try e wines and the British good hosts were
the to take up tokay and kvass and brantWein
and slivovich (These outlandlsh names are mosty
guesswork, but the actual list more OBSCURE
The delegates, according to their friends would want
liquors made out of potatoes and cherry-ps and the
highly concentrated of of spades and all
sorts of things)
flushed Silence
A nice thing about the conference is that it be-
gins we are being warned that it will not do much in
fact failure is already discounted the conference
ends in anything short of universal, omn-ateral
declaration of war, shall all be highly grattled.
Tariffs, the gold standard, and the debts being
the three outstanding economic problems of the day,
not of them will be discussed officially. Diplomacy
is wonderful thing
The Drinking Valet
diplomat for whom have much respect-perhaps
because he has stopped being diplomat and is now
newspaper man-is Harold Nicolson, of the great
permanent official of the British foreign office whose
biography he wrote in his "Portrait of Diplomatis
Recently read story by Mr.. Nicolson which is
masterpiece of humor in itself and incidentally, pic
ture of the atmosphere in which European conferences
take place 1t is called "Arketal" and is included in
of the best omnibus books ever made up: Somer
set Maugham's Travellers Library" Arketa is the
name of Lord Curzons valet and Arketall has
fortunate failing: liquor
So Arketal is always just barely catching trains losing
his bowler hat getting into trouble with customs officials
and in gorgeous scene receiving the homage of the
entire population of Lausanne, which mstook him for
Lord Curzon himself Lord Curzon had gone to Vevey
to dine with Mussolin later Musson kept Curzon and
Poincare waiting half hour for another conference
And as the conference went to pieces described
"arrving at satisfactory concusions Arketa went to
pieces and ultimately fired. Then Lord CurzOn did
his imitation of Tennyson reciting Tears Idle Tears
It is superb sketch and it doesn't exactly
about economic conferences.
Votes and Trains
dress designed with deep decolette and slender
skirt ending in five pleated flounces a rusting
taffeta foundation the hit of recent preview in
Paris The gown swept the floor for several inches in
the back" No laughed. Another much-admired
dress had skirt ending in three deep lace frls and for
girde crushed sash of skyblue ribbon.
I am not sure what pleated flounces are but they
sound like something out of the family album and in
fact they herald the of fashion to the styles of the
1905 For myself do not mind. I only want those
people who oddly connected votes for with eanc
nation in clothes to tell what they think of all this
Especially about those several inches the floor.
thought should 60 back to that sort of thing
because it is "unsanitary.
Back to BustIe
To be sure women have votes in France and it is
said that since those vulgar Americans aren't rich
as they once fashions in Paris being designed
for nice rich LatnAmericans who haven't heard about
suffrage and sanitation. The chances are still 5 to
that the same type of dress will appear this side
will be worn and in the funess of time will begin to
Crook extravaganza (and get kick out of ) and the
hustle, will be back right where we started. Then
the ward bosses who have been driven out of politics by
women will return to their own