Evening star., 1933-08-16

! tas' days in Washington are probably
, numbered. Though never an aggres-
| siVe exponent of the Machado regime,
it feh to Cintas lot TO be its exponent
in the United States. President Ces-
| pedes, 1t is felt, will want somebody
else to speak for him on the Potomac
in the reconstruction days Just ahead.
So it may not be long before Ambassa-
dor Clntas returns to business life in
New York City. Much sympathy is
expressed in the Capital for Dr. Orestes
Ferrara, Machados ouSted secretary of
state, and for Sonora Ferrara Many
OF his former colleagues in Washington
considered Ambassador Ferrara the all
around best mind in the local diplo-
matte corps.
Speaking of ambassad dors, opinion is
/ crystallizing that William C. Bullitt
special assistant to Secretary Hull, has
the inside track for the ambassadorShip
| to Soviet Russia, 'if and when" He
was the American delegations go-be-
| tween with Litvinof at the London Eco
nomic Conference Insiders think that
| in the 42-year-old diplomat President
Roosevelt has another Sumner WelleS
/ Former Senator Brookhart of Iowa
who's specializing in Soviet matters over
at the Agricultural Adjustment Admin
lstratlon, Is touted in some quarters as our
possible first envoy to Moscow, Brook
hart is an enthusiastic believer in the
possibilities of Russo-American trade.
Herbert Hoover's mail bag out in CAL
! ifornia, the little birds are whispering,
bulges these days with requests from
olo-tlme supporters for expressions of
his opinion on current events at Wash
lngton, especially recovery developments.
But 1t is not on record that the former
| President has SO far broken his self
imposed rule of inviolable silence on
| public affairs for the indefinite future.
| The suggestion is ventured that on some
suitable occasion later on the spirit
may move him to discuss the state of
the Union. Probably there's no private
| American citizen on whom millions
would rather tune in these days than
the late chief engineer of the U. S. A
N. r. A. snapshots-Prof Walter
Rautenstrauch of Columbia University,
one of the patentees of technocracy.
thinks N. R. A. is noble in rnotive-to
restore employment-bu strongly ques-
tionS its permanent effectiveness )"
San Francisco'S Chinatown re-
ports that rs per cent of its shops and
factories have already gone Blue Eagle.
Norman Thomas, Socialist candi-
date for President in 1882, calls upon
trade unions not to surrender the right
to strike under codes or the new Ma
tional Labor Board. The found
ing fathers (and mothers) of N. R. A
originally planned to code only some
20 of the basic industries, lika cotton
| tov o;1 nd o,1+o
Twas an afterthought to bring every
body and everything under codes. =
Gen johnson looks for court deter
mination Of the issue as to whether
some industries doing strictly State
business are subject to N. R. A, en-
powered under the law to deal only
with industries engaged in interstate
and foreign commerce.
X X x X
Mrs. Charles H. Sabin of New York,
the Joan of Arc of repeal just back
from Europe. is delighted to hear all
about those nice little Southern States
which have voted for repeal since I
sailed on July g." She expects definite
repeal to be in her Christmas stocking.
/ X X X
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt is one
| OF the 1882 Summer VacatlOnlStS whose
plans suddenly miscarried. She had
perfected all arrangements for trip to
Russia and had to cancel them at the
last moment on account of unexpected
legal obligations in California. Instead
OF leisurely jaunt through Sovietland
and European countries, "Portia" is
snatching American week ends hither
and yon. There was once an uncon-
firmed story that the Russian govern
ment was thinking Of commissioning the
former Assistant Attorney General in
charge of prohibition to act for the
Soviet in representative capacity at
Washington.
(Copyright, 1881