Evening star., 1933-11-20
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

the commissar have never met. The
former chairman of the Foreign Rela-
tlons Committee is ready to take hand
IN any Senate proceedings necessary to
sustain President Roosevelt's recognition
OF Russia. A fight could only take the
form of opposition to the confirmation
OF Ambassador Bullitt. It isn't expected
to get very far. The advice and con-
sent OF the Senate are not required for
recognition of foreign governments This
is exclusively an executive function.
And still they come-the endless pro-
cession of college professors drafted into
the higher councils of the New Deal!
The latest arrival, Dr. Francis Bowes
Sayre. son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson
and Harvard law professor, succeeds
Harry F. Payer as Assistant Secretary
OF State. Today, with the exceptions of
War and Navy, there's hardly a Gov
ernment department or emergency re-
lief administration that isn't literally
sprinkled with men drawn from the
faculties of colleges or universities. One
of the professors in the Department of
Justice, DR.. Albert Levitt Of Connecti-
cut-a special assistant to Attorney
General Cummings, has just launched
q vigorous attack on National Chair
man Everett Sanders for publishing the
recent Lets Look at the Record" anti
Roosevelt pamphlet. Prof. Levitt is q
Hoover Republican" but fought the
Roraback G. o. p. machine in Connecti-
cut. He was formerly professor of law
at Washington and Lee University and
at the University Of North Dakota
The War Department may have to
put up another fight in Congress to pre-
sonnel. The Circumstance that the
Army lent 5000 officers to the Civilian
Conservation Corps has given rise to
the idea in some quarters that If these
officers could be spared from their reg
ular duties. they must be surplus mate
rial that could be eliminated without
lmpairing Army efficiency. The Army
and Navy Register, commenting on a
report that efforts will be made in the
coming session Of Congress to reduce
officer personnel from $4,000 to 10000,
says: THE Army carried out peace
time mission, by order of the President,
by reducing its normal activities, This
certainly should not be used as q basis
for again proposing that there is a sur
plus Of officers. This temporary duty
should be claSSed as any other emer-
gency use Of personnel"
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Speaking of the C.. c. c., that con-
Sp1cuouS success Of the Roosevelt recov-
cry program, it would appear, is some
thing Calvin Coolidge was once think
ing about. One of his syndicated news
paper articles, just reprinted by the
American Tree Association, contains the
following passage: If the Government
ever needs to give work to the unem-
ployed. an enlarged system of reforesta-
ton would be partial solution, free
from objection. 1t would not interfere
with rates of wages or marketing of
production in any of the existing in
dustries. Operation could cease without
loss"
Gen. Johnson's book, Williams Of
West Point" published in 1907, has sud-
denly become q best seller, his publish
ers declare, as result of the authors
N. r. A. fame. He wrote 1t while q
second lieutenant Of the 1st Cavalry.
or the reams of things published about
Gen. johnson, little or nothing has been
said about the fact that he was q mem
ber OF the Roosevelt prediction brain
trust, along with Messrs Moley, Tug
well, Berle, ct al, having been brought
into the picture by Bernard M. Baruch.
Copyright, 1881