The Washington times., 1935-03-20
NOW
Capital POnders
HitLer's Plans
G.. o. STIRRING
BY HELEN ESSARY

Club where H. G.. Wells is stay
ing, the English writer, here for
q few days, automatically springs
to the receiver and says:
''NO, / really cannot express
an opinion on Germany'S pres
ent behavior"
Foreign diplomats in Wash
ington are alarmed at the situa-
ton in Europe which has re-
suited from Hitler'S Scrapping
Of the Versailles Treaty.
Representatives Of European
powers, particularly, are anxious
and fear a wholesale war.
A German diplomat, in speak.
ing of the attitude of his own
country, said:
"The young men in Germany
have forgotten there ever was
. World War. They have for.
gotten how their country suf.
fered and is still suffering. They
see only that life at present has
little to give them.
"The young men cannot find
Jobs. They cannot marry. They
blame this futility, this empti-
ness on the enemies of their
country-On the people who
made the Versailles Treaty.
Therefore, says German
youth, why not destroy those
who have tried to destroy us.
Besides, fighting would be some
thing. Better than the vacant
life we endure nOw."
A German woman who was in
Washington last spring as an
emisSary of the Hitler govern
ment-she was arranging for the
interchange of college students
said to us, in her first remark
after we had been presented:
"Ah! You Americans! You
hate my country! You made the
Versailles Treaty because you
did not want to see Germany
survive"
But to a pleasanter if less OBJ
vious theme-the League OF
Nations:
Mrs. Franz Won Matsch, who
was Lillian Hendrick, of Wash
ington, before her marriage to
an Austrian, is now vice chair
man Of the Women's Consulta-
tive Committee Of the League
of Nations. Women from many
countries are represented on
the committee. Alice Paul is
the chairman.
Frau Won Matsch's husband,
DR.. Won Matsch, is chairman of
the Austrian delegation to the
League.
Frau Won Matsch, so her SIS
ter, Mrs. Royal McKenna, tells
us, has just returned to Vienna
from q cruise to Bermuda with
her Sister-in-law, Baroness Won
Matsch.
Well, since practically every
thing else that woodrow Wilson
left is cracked up, it's nice to
be reminded that a fragment Of
the League of Nations exists
If only in a Geneva auditorium
once year.
The Republican party has
burst through the winter of its
discomfort with the March
crocuS.
The G.. o. P. has fired the first
gun Of it's spring campaign with
one of the incest parties in
months. The gun was feminine
but the aim was good.
Mrs. Henry P. Fletcher, wife
Of the chairman of the Repub.
hcan National Committee, en-.
tertained the members of the
Women's National Press Club
and the Newspaper Women's
Club at the 1925 F Street Club.
The smartest women in the
Republican party were on
view. A good-looking lot they
were, too. In expensive clothes,
worn casually.
Many official Republican
women undoubtedly have great
charm cit was turned on full
at the party) and the kind Of
poise that Democratic women
will have in another four or
five years. If things go we'll.
We thought as we looked
around the delightful rooms Of
Laura Curtis Club that one Of
these women, before many
years have passed, might be
holding press conferences at
1900 Pennsylvania Avenue. We
wondered who she would be.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley For.
man Reed (he's about to be
the new Solicitor GeneraD have
made more friends than al
most any recent comers to
washington Strickland
Gillian, lecturer and humor.
list, just back from Mexico,
says he had to come home to
the United States to find out
what the Mexican situation"
was.
Edgar Leo Gustave Prochnik,
the Austrian Minister, will re.
ceive the honorS of the John
Carroll Academy of Foreign
Service at the Founders Day
Celebration on March IS at
Georgetown University.
Young Edgar Prochnik has
just won an honor of his own.
He made one of the best three