Evening star., 1935-12-02
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

buggy" issue into the 1886 campaign.
Not everybody agrees that the issue is
dead. This week the Economic Club Of
New York will devote its Hath annual
dinner to the subject. The speakers will
include Senator Rush D. Holt, Democrat,
of West Virginia; r. S. Desvernine, chair
man of the National Lawyers Committee
of the American Liberty League, and
Frederick H. Wood. counsel for the sue
ceSsful defendants in the N. r. A. case
before the Supreme Court. The preSi-
dent of the club is James P. Warburg,
erstwhile New Deal Treasury aide.
Sally (Mrs Alvin T) Hert, who has
just relinquished the vice chairmanship
of the Republican National Committee
along with her resignation as national
committeewoman for Kentucky, has
ranked as first lady Of the G.. o. P. or
ganization for the past IL years. She
inherited her fair for politics from her
late husband, who, in the days of Old
Guard ascendancy. was a party power
Mrs. Hert also succeeded to his business
connections, taking his place as chair
man Of the board of the American Gre
osoting Co. and in other large industrial
enterprises, including a big blue grass
stock farm. As the first woman vice
chairman of the national committee, 1t
fell to Sally Hert's lot to organize Re-
publican sisters on Nationwide scale
early in suffrage days. At one time,
when there was talk that Harding, Cool
idge or Hoover might offer a cabinet
portfolio to woman, Mrs. Hert'S name
was the one most conSpicuously men
toned in that connection. A Hoosier by
birth, she presides over one of Washing
tons interesting political salons.
In days gone by, every suggestion OF a
tariff alliance with the United States re-
vived fears in the Dominion that Uncle
Sam craved to annex Canada, and that
anything in the nature OF reciprocity
treaty was a fatal step in that direction.
Such anxieties long since evaporated.
The spirit of "nationhood" is now so
deep-seated among Canadians that they
would even resent anything that sought
to bind them closer to the British crown
If it curbed the virtually complete in
dependence which our northern neigh
borS enjoy.
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There are diplomats in washington
who opine that if League sanctions bring
Mussolini to terms, the time is not FAR
distant when the same sort OF medicine
will be administered to Japan, in order
to check her aggression in China. An oil
embargo would hit Nippon in a vital
spot. The japanese would be perhaps
even more disastrously affected by
foreign boycott of their goods. The island
empire depends for its economic exist
ence on exports of silk, particularly to
this country. To destroy Japan's silk
market would be to stop the flow of her
life blood. Toxic is watching League
Italian developments with anxious in
tereSt.
Our London Naval Conference dele
gates, now in mid-Atlantic, have no very
rosy hopes in their baggage. Nearly
everybody fears that about the only
result of the conference will be event.
ual Anglo-Arnerican-J japanese Franco
German Italian naval building competi-
ton. Continued Anglo-American soli-
darity against Japan's demand for parity
with the English h-shooting" fleets is
generally expected.
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