The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-06
POPE OF IDAHO
MAY TRY TO
OUT-BORAH BILL
States Other Senator Also
Ambitious to Become
international Expert.

International Expert.
Bg soripps-Ho,card Neiospoper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-"Bill
Borah came to the Senate in 1907
from Idaho-then a state Of some
100000 souls-and in time became
full-fedge6 spokesman on interna-
tional affairs to whom the world
listened. People in foreign lands
know about Senator Borah when
thew couldn't tell you who was
President
Now along comes another Idaho
Senator. Democrat. who seems de-
termined to hang his name along
side his Republican colleagues but
with such speed and in such a man
ner as TO call dowr a gentle rebuke
from the Senate md to keep the
State Department slightly nervous.
The gentleman from Idaho WHO'S
getting his name in the papers
and by orthodox Borah methods,
that is. the ready interviews Sen
ator James Pinckney Pope. lawyer,
Louisiana bred and educated, tall,
stoutish. bald. of scholarly bearing.
who was swept into the Senate or
the Roosevelt 1882 Landslide.
Champion Of League
Mr.. Pope dashed away to Europe
before Congress adjourned, talked
first for publication in the congenial
university atmosphere at oxford,
England. and now his sounding
board is Geneva, Switzerland, where
the League of Nations is taking up
the thiopian-Italian crisis.
The next word to the reporters is
awaiteo-for the United States is
not a member of the League of Ma
lions, though it often cO-operates in
spirit from a safe distance, and you
can start an argument in Washing
ton any time by rafting the bones
of the League skeleton.
Senator Pope is a warm cham
piOn Of the League. He introduced
a resolution for United States entry.
And now, in his latest utterance for
publication, he SAYS the United
States will cooperate fully with the
League if it stops an Italian
Ethiopian conflict and proves itself
an agency capable of promoting
peace.
Scored by Senate
So delicate is the Italian Ethiop-
ian matter that the State Depart
ment itself won't breathe a word
lest it be represented as taking sides
and it doesn't care to have any,
body else committing this country,
even by inference, to anything.
That's the situation into which
the Senator injects himself.
No one questions his good motives.
Nor do most people in this country
concern themselves long with what
a Senator says. But a Senator,
when he goes abroad, becomes to
foreign nations a sort of ambassa-
dor extraordinary and his words
often are given an official meaning
which requires embarrassing eX-
plantations.
That was all explained by Senator
Robert La Toilette prog, Wis., on
the next-to-last day of the session,
when he introduced his resolution
to give notice that no Senator has
been authorized either directly or
indirectly to act as the Official or
unofficial representative abroad of
the Senate or any OF its commit
tees"
Suddenly Vocal Again
The La Toilette resolution was
provoked by an interview from Sem
ator Pope, his first, in which he said
the United States would be dragged
into any war which broke out in
Europe. The resolution was with
drawn after several people had
taken cracks at Senator Pope. Mr..
La Toilette apparently deciding that
would suffice.
Congress adjourned. Mr.. Pope
was forgotten. Now suddenly he is
again vocal.
Lots of people have wondered
WndL IL Is lndI pIoiliptS AOdiO OSh
ators TO devote their attention to
international matters. But fame, it
is true, lay that way for Senator
Borah. 1t is only before an cleo
ton that he interests himself in
such things as the Idaho potato.
Some have been mean enough to
suggest that Mr.. Pope is trying to
-..A-ks,,, r1oroE, u, tho 6olI in u-hir6
he has shone so long.
Borah has never been TO Europe
and the League of Nations is his
pet hate. Senator Pope is on the
other side Of the argument-and he
has moved right 20 the scene of
actiOp