The Washington times., 1933-10-20

ing our representative had not held calling school
back after week Governments always act this way
They hand passports ambassadors the moment situation
grows straned-which would be the time an ambassador
is most needed We recall their ambassadors cutting
foreign and angry countries off from possibility of
knowing what we think and want
Reverse the Plan
Considering the harm diplomats do it to that
system and schedule should be created Keeping
diplomats of countries long the countries are
friendly and bringing them back to business the moment
any difficulty arises. On this principle would have
kept Gerard Germany and Count Won Benstortt here
during the war; each explaining his country to the other
keeping alive the possibilities of future friendship forming
q medium of communication 1t might have helped.
There is doubt that Hitler has beered his position in
the past few days although he hasn't swept the board
he might have His main argument is for equality and as
Lloyd George pointed out last year. the nations which i'm
posed the foul Treaty Of Versailles Germany signed IN
that treaty. pledge to dlsarm which they nave not begun
to carry So Hitler had stuck to single point eve
dsarmed and waiting for you to disarm his posi-
tion would have been unassaable the position OF the
Russians has been for years.
Both Ends and Middle
Unfortunately for Hitler he has talked much about
the gores of addresses not to the world but to his
people, which the rest of the world has overheard
&c. after offering to dsarm, Hitler has to turn and add
logically enough but you do not dSarm, want the
right arm and the suspicion persists that he prefers
armng to disarmng This makes Hitler hero at home
and proves him good instructive politician but doesn't
exactly inspire confidence And the conference breaks
up proposals made for direct negotiations between
Germany and France sgnyng again that Europe has lost
III
back what understands much BETTER the diplomacy OF
the nineteenth century which ended goriousy in 1914
Ranking Liquors
You do not expect commentary the quality of liquor
from the survey made for John D. Rockefeller r but
find it, by implication the suggested taxes. One
proposed based the amount Of alcohol the drink
that pure mathematics another is the cost of pro-
ducton, which, take it. is also matter of simple proper
ton But the levied to discourage consumption works
on moral basis The schedule suggests such tax
beer and wine but small tax strong beer and high
AS cents), sparkling wine and the figures swoop
from gallon these drinks to $145 for whisky.
And than that the supertax evied to reach luxury
consumption is $1.3O liqueurs and only 25 cents
whisky implying (qute correcty that sweet queurs
on the whole fit drink. A sound theory if only
brandy and the fragrant shifted to the
whisky class.
A Book, Today
Vincent Starrett has written The Private Life Sher
lock Holiness (Nacmlan) in a book which who has
read the Adventures and the Memors'' and the RE
turn and the Hound of the Baskerves will be able to
resist Was Holmes in love? Did he marry? How
many books did he write Where did he keep his tobacco?
Was cured of the dope habit? Did he borrow
the methods of detectives whom he pretended to desps?
Was he always strictly honorable? And and
to of examination papers Mr. Starrett proceeds
simply the assumption that Sherlock Holmes lived
perhaps still lives. He is right and many biography has
been written of many less significant figure Conan Doyle
asked by French general in all seriousness IN
what regiment NJ Holiness at the front Doyle replied
that Holmes the limit), and the time
come when people will doubt whether anyone named French
or Jeicoe lived but be that Sherlock Holmes did.