Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-03

from DR.. Nicholas Murray Buffers
intellectual power house, has just
dispatched its professor Of American
history. Allan Nevins, to lecture for
a month at University College, Lon
don, on the progress of the New Deal.
Our British cousins are tremendously
interested in the Roosevelt expert
ment. Mr.. Nevins is the author Of
the Pulitzer prize winning biography
Grover Cleveland: A Study in Cour-
age" published in 1892.
Keystone Democrats in Washington
will make whoopee on December 10
in celebration of the conquest of
rock-ribbed Republican Pennsylvania
at the recent election. The celebra-
ton will take the form Of banquet
in honor Of Senator elect Joseph F..
Guffey. Postmaster General Farley
has accepted an invitation to be
POSTMASTER. The newly-elected Demo-
cratic State officials of Pennsylvania
and members of the congressional
delegation will be honor guests along
with Mr.. Guffey. Invitations to the
love-feast have been extended to the
President and Vice President, men,
bers of the cabinet and other ma
tionally prominent Democrats. Or
ganized by the Pennsylvania Demo-
cratic Club of the District of Column
bia, the festivities are intended to
symbolic the determination to keep
PENIS Woods in the Democratic
column from now on.
There are already signs that efforts
to expand naval building sufficiently
to maintain SIS superiority over
Japan will encounter old-time Or
ganized opposition from anti-pre-
paredness groups. Senator Borah
indicates that he will lead the fight
against anything that threatens
renewal of naval competition. Should
either President Roosevelt or con-
gressional leaders propose construc-
ton beyond present treaty provisions,
in order to meet the Japanese equal
ity'' challenge, the naval question is
sure to become a major issue on
Capitol Hill and generate plenty of
controversy. Big navyites pin their
hopes on the fact that there's a
sailor President at the helm.
President Roosevelt's rhetorical
question, Have you lost any per-
sonal ibertieS?" addressed last Sum-
mer to $4,000, 000-odd individual
Americans, is being taken literally
by II liberal organizations meeting
in Washington on December 8 and 9
under the auspices of the militant
American Civil Liberties Union. The
promoters Of this Conference on
Civil Liberties under the New Deal"
say that hundreds Of liberals will
give their answer to Mr.. Roosevelt's
question by examining the status of
civil liberty as now enjoyed by all
minority groups-labor, Negroes, farm
workers, relief workers, immigrants
and others. 1t is claimed that thus,
for the first time, the New Deal will
be assessed both by archie critics and
stanch defenders. The sponsoring
organizations have o double purpose
in holding this Washington SYM
poSium-to unite their forces and to
pave the way for an intensive legis-
lative program. Among the speakers
will be Senator Costigan, Democrat,
Of Colorado; Representative Kvale,
Farmer-Labor, Of Minnesota, Com
missioner General of immigration
Mccormack, Post Once Solicitor
Crowley, Aubrey Williams Of the Fed
eral Emergency Relief Administra-
ton and Senator at Large Luis
Munoz-Martin Of Puerto Rico.
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