Evening star., 1935-01-30

Rejection Of the World Court reso-
luton by the Senate shows that the
huge Democratic majority in the Sew
enty-fourth Congress is by no means
the dependable and tractable New
Deal phalanX it was supposed and
expected to be. That the authority
of President Roosevelt on Capitol Hill
: has suffered a severe reverse is in
disputable. The Senate could not have
presented him with more unaccept-
able birthday gift. The adverse vote
with its wholesale detection of Demo
Gratis. came as an eleventh-hour sur
prise to the administration and its
leadership, although unmistakable
signs of impending shipwreck revealed
themselves as the moment Of decision
approached. If the final result is a
Roosevelt defeat, it is no less strik-
ink triumph for Senators Borah and
johnson, who entered the fray II
days ago firmly believing that the op-
position was entering upon an almost
irretrievably lost battle. Senator Joe
Robinson, the Democratic Senate
leader, went down fighting gallantly
Not long before the fateful roll call
he knew the jig was up, realizing that
the tremendous anti-Court propa-
ganda of the past week had accom-
pliShed its deadly work. The big
question now is the effect on remain
ing Roosevelt causes in Congress. That
it will fill administration foes with
lust for fresh conquests is the almost
| universal belief.
After Senator Huey Long had en-
| tertained the Senate during the
fading hours of the World Court de-
bate with a theatrical tale of his
feud with the Standard Oil Co., Sem
ator Joe Robinson of Arkansas sug-
gested that perhaps one of the best
things that could be done by the
Senate would be to refer the war in
Louisiana to the World Court and
then we might hope for at least
temporary, if not permanent, peace"
! The KingfSh, as usual, performed
before packed galleries. No doubt
any longer exists that he has become
the Senate's supreme drawing card,
and the throngS that turn up in eX-
pectation of good show are seldom
disappointed. Long is said now to
receive the largest mail reaching any
member of Congress. An unofficial
estimate fixes its volume at an av-
erage of $4,000 letters a week, which
the Post Office delivers by the sack
full They come from all parts of
the country and have notably in
creased in number since Huey took
to the radio to broadcast his share
the-wealth" program.
Harold Nicolson, British author and
former diplomat, has come to the
United States to assemble material for
a biography of Dwight w. Morrow.
Mrs. Morrow plans shortly to proceed
to Mexico City to assist MIR. Nicolson
in gathering data about her late huS-
bands ambassadorial career south OF
the Rio Grande. Mr.. Nicolson has
written lives of Tennyson, Byron,
Swinburne and Lord Curzon, and is
looked upon as one. of the foremost
biographers in present-day English
literature. His Dwight Morrow" will
include a detailed narrative Of the
Jersey stateman's activities as dele
gate to the London Naval Conference
in 1880.
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If President Roosevelt carries out
his desire to attend the initiation OF
his son, Franklin D., jr., into the
Harvard Fly Club at the end Of Febru-
ary, he will do so as an ex-member OF
that ancient and ultra exclusive Or
ganization, founded in 1886, and to
which he was elected as an under
graduate jim 1902. Its adherents OF