Evening star., 1933-07-03
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

George Washington six years ago. His
newest plan for the university is q
center for inter-American studies"
which will be inaugurated next year.
Its purpose Is to Link in q manner never
hitherto attempted the purely cultural
and academic ties which bind the
United States with Canada and the 20
Latin American countries. BY short
wave radio and other means the
g. w. U. center" hopes to knit rela-
tionships between all the universities
Of the Western Hemisphere. With
statesmanlike vision DR.. Marvin be-
lieves that the United States future
lies in the direction of unity with the
nations on this side of the Atlantic and
Pacific rather than with Europe or
Asia. DR.. Leo S. Rowe, seasoned di-
rector general of the Pan-American
Union, will be counselor Of the center"
One may be sure there was a merry
twinkle in the eye of Secretary Of the
Navy Claude A. Swanson when he
issued his second to none" statement
of the United States naval policy the
other day, about the very hour the
ineffective Geneva Disarmament Con-
ference was adjourning until October
and Norman H. Davis was assuring
President Roosevelt that disarmament
is slow. but sure. It Is everybody S
secret that President Roosevelt has his
jaw set to go ahead and build q mighty
American feet. If the rest of the world
by its action, or rather, inaction, indi-
Gates its determination to keep on pill
was delegate at Geneva for the first
six months of the conferences futility
and knows better than almost any other
American how hopeless the disarma-
ment outlook is as long as Europe re-
mains a powder magazine and Asia a
playground for japanese aggression.
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Jouett Shouse ought to get hold of
the speech delivered at the London
conference last week by M. Albert
Sarraut, French colonial minister, In
glorif1cation of wines and denunciation
Of prohibition. 1t might help to win
those 20 other States which have yet
to vote in favor of repeal. "Teetotalism
and prohibition are terrible heresies and
gloomy obfuscations OF the human
spirit" said NJ Sarraut, who then asked
how people can have the heart to neglect
that treasure which IS wine, which he
proceeded to describe as q real gift
from heaven OF the DlOOQ OF lie, winch
has been vouchsafed us in this vale of
tears as compensation for our suffer-
ings." Sarraut saw prohibition swing
into its futile existence in the United
States in 1921, when he was a member
Of the French delegation and later its
chairman, at the Washington Arma-
ment Conference. He is the publisher
Of the Toulouse Dispatch, the most in
duential French provincial newspaper.
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Around the town you can hear that
the brain trusters" in such plentiful
evidence all over the Federal landscape
are learning things in Washington as
well as teaching them. They're getting
an eyeful of practical training in the
science of government which is quite
commonly an eye-opener as well. A
cynical observer remarks that when the
professors leave Washington, many Of
them will be pretty smart fellows" A
cruel thrust at the professoriat comes
from member of Congress, who asserts,
referring to the radio and journalistic
activities of certain members Of the
group, that *evidently they think sound
theory Is the most practical Of all
things" dig at the prediction of
some Of the "profs" to be heard and
not merely seen.
Copyright, 1933.1