Evening star., 1934-05-02

| About the angriest persons in Wash
| ington this week are Republican men,
bers of Congress. What has them hot
| and bothered is former Secretary of
State Henry L. Stimson's support of
the Roosevelt reciprocal tariff bill.
One G. o. P. leader is so agitated
that he wishes there we're machinery
for reading StimSon out of the party !
The same embittered soul asserts the
colonel is running true to form IN
espousing the Democratic tariff pro-
gram, because he's an "interna-
tionalist." a League of Nations man.
World Courier and all the rest OF
it. There is no expectation that the
Stimson broadcast will make Repub-
lican votes for the Presidents propo-
sition. but Leader Joe Robinson doesn't
think any are necessary. In Demo-
cratic quarters they're acclaiming the
Hoover premier as gentleman, a
scholar and a patriot.
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BY accident or design, this weeks
note to Japan Immediately followed
the Stimson boost of the Roosevelt
tariff plan. The coincidence causes
some observers to wonder whether Sec
retary Hull's adoption of the "Stlmson
doctrine" for China may not have
been reciprocity-of the non-tariff
variety. Frequently between his cleo
ton and Inauguration Mr.. Roosevelt
conferred with Secretary Stimson on
foreign affairs Their relations have
continued to be friendly and utterly
devoid of partisanship. Now and then
! they say, Stimson's views have been
! sought on the international s1tua-
ton. Col. Stimson, General Coun-
sci Richberg of N. R. A. and
former Senator George Wharton Pep
per of Pennsylvania. form the notable
trio of speakers who will address the
American Law Institute dinner IN
| Washington on May II.
Both Japanese Ambassador Saito in
the United States and American Am
bassador Grew in Japan happened tc
| be in the midst of Japanese American
I love-feasts at the very moment the
''hands-off China storm broke out
| NJ OdlIO W dS dOllls IilS AAOiiOAo eNAAAO~@G
the cherry blossoms in Washington
while Mr.. Grew was the central figure
in ceremonies commemorating the
8Oth. anniversary of Commodore
Perry's treaty with Nippon. Mrs
Grew, a born Perry, is a lineal de-
scendant of the famous American
naval officer who unlocked the dool
of Japan in 1854. She spent part Of
her girlhood in Japan, while hel
father was professor of English ir
the Imperial University.
BRYAN week in Washington, revolv-
ing around the unveiling of the Com
coner's statue in Potomac Park, ap-
propriately comedies with the zenith
of silver agitation in Congress. None
of the pending propositions exactly
typifies the old 16 to l program, but
| their general purposes are the same
Bryan remains the legendary hero and
patron saint of all true silverites
and his gospel will be literally in
voked when Capitol Hill reverberates
later with the demand that some
thing be done for the white metal.
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Speaking of Bryan, House men,
bers are interested in news that Ruth
Bryan Owen, now Minister to Den
mark, may be succeeded by another
woman Representative from Florida
She is the widow of Richard Croker
famous Tammany boss. Mrs. Croker
has announced herself as a Demo-
cratic candidate for the Palm Beach
seat, now held by Representative Mark
Wilcox, in the primary to be held or
June S. Mrs. Croker has never run