Evening star., 1934-12-19
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM FILE.

There will be plenty Of votes In
Congress for President Roosevelt g
war profits and neutrality proposals
whenever he recommends action, but
q Niagara Of pro and con discussion
will drench Capitol Hill before legisla-
ton ensues. The constitutional law
yers, especially in the Senate, will be
vociferously heard from. The inter-
nationalists and the anti-interna-
tionalists will have their innings
again. Debates that will smack OF
the League of Nations storm are In
prospect, even though no such stub
born hostility as the irreconcilables
put up is in sight. Senators Borah
and Johnson are the sole survivors
Of the famed battalion Of death"
Both war profits and neutrality propo-
sitions present so many complicated
and technical angles that In what
ever form Mr.. Roosevelt presents
them they will arouse prolonged con-
troversy. 1t is not likely that either
proposal will be submitted at q time
that could obstruct consideration of
relief and recovery measures, which
remain paramount from the New
Dealers standpoint.
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Those New York Young Republican
groups before which Senators Borah
and Nye spoke last week seem to have
decided to become an arena for dis
play of G. o. p. 1896 presidential
talent. In January they will present
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg Of
Michigan and Gov. John G. Winant
Of New Hampshire and others at
regular intervals. The leader of the
movement, Chase Mellen, jr., New
York County chairman, later intends
to bring women into the picture as
factors in the plans to refashion the
Republican party on modernistic
lines.
Charles Warren of the District of
Columbia bar, who figures promi-
nently in the State Departments
study Of the problem Of American
neutrality in war time, is Bos-
tonian, Harvard Law graduate and
acknowledged authority on the Con-
oIltotlOl dk1o WIG CNCLdk
His three-volume work on 'The Su-
preme Court in United States His
tory won the Pulitzer prize in 1928.
Mr.. Warren began professional life
as private secretary to the late Gov.
William E. Russell of Massachusetts,,
the young Democrat looked upon in
the gay nineties as the political heir
of Grover Cleveland. Later Warren
became Gov. Russell's law partner.
As Assistant Attorney General dur
ing the World War Mr.. Warren spe-
cialized in cases connected with our
neutral shipping rights.
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Representative-elect Simon M
Hamlin, Democrat, of Maine, hero o1
the November upset which brought
defeat to seasoned Representative
Carroll L. Beedy, Republican, wa
married at the executive mansion In
Augusta on December Is, with Gov
Louis j. Brann as best man. Mrs
Hamlin, the former Mrs. Evelyn Field
Ward. will be her husbands secretary
in Washington.
Il Il Il Il
DR.. Julius Deutsch Of Vienna, who
commanded Austrian Social Demo
cratic forces In their sanguinary battle
with the Dollfuss army last February
is q visitor to Washington. As the
guest of Benjamin Meiman, CORE
spondent of the Jewish Daily Forward
DIR, Deutsch pleaded eloquently be-
fore Capital newspaper men on be-
half Of the campaign to bring about
the naturalization Of Austria. He de.
clares It the one means Of prevent
ing the country from becoming thu
cause Of another war. Dr. Deutsch