Evening star., 1935-11-20
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

All signs foreShadow that the political
welkin will ring indefinitely and loudly
with the pros and cons of the Canadian
treaty. Sharpshooting has already begun
in Republican quarters and among dlsaf-
fected farm. dairy and lumber groups.
Congress is sure to reverberate with at
tacks on various counts, including con-
stitutional grounds. and the pact IS
bound to ramify into the presidential
campaign. RooSeveltians are serenely
confident that the agreement will so
efectually rebound to the benefit OF
American business as a whole that COM
plant and criticism will be drowned out.
BY the time the 1886 contest is in full
blast adminiStrationistS predict the bar
gain with the Dominion will be recog-
nized as New Deal achievement Of the
first magnitude. Provision of quotas for
competitive Canadian live stock, dairy
products and lumber materially takes the
sting out of tariff concessions which
might otherwise have inflicted injury on
the domestic industries in question. Re-
publicans Indicate that they see nrsI-
class issue material in the treaty. Tarl1,
that proverbial bone of American polit-
ical contention, seems to be in for
new lease of life.
In consequence of ahtS New YORK
speech, talk of Herbert HooverS preSl-
dental candidacy has reached the
zenith That he is in receptive mooo
is no longer doubted. While he mas
authorized no preconvention campaign,
certain HooveriteS. including two 1or-
mer cabinet officers. are said to be WORK
ing in the direction of unlnStructed
State delegations which would turn 10
the Californian at psychological mo-
ment Anything Savorlng OF can ior
Hoover's nomination will unquestlonaoly
find him ready to accept it. For the mo-
ment he insists he's interested exclusive
" in inducing his party to adopt
certain principles He is anxious 10
have 1t steer clear of BorahlSm,
especially on monetary matters.
Hoover will remain on the hrlng
line and be heard from periodically IN
the new fighting form revealed IN the
Oakland and New York speeches-the
epigrammatic, wiSe-Cracklng, haro-hlt-
ting, ironical Hoover, who has suooenly
come to life.
President Roosevelts indefatigablllty
while on the wing will be demonstrated
afresh during his impending absence
from the White House. Within tne
same "a hours he will preside over annual
Thanksgiving festivities at Warm Springs
and deliver a keynote political adoreSS
in Atlanta. On the same day, December
8, while en- route to Washington, r. u n.
will speak in the morning before the
American Farm Bureau Federation III
Chicago, and two or three hours later
take part in ceremonies at Notre Dame
connected with his acceptance OF all
LII. D. degree. Next May, when the Pres
ident visits the Southwest, he Will, IN
the course of two successive days, at
tend centennial celebrations in Iexas
and Arkansas, speaking on each occa-
sion.
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Marshal Pietro Badoglio, successor OF
Gen. Emilio de Bono as commander
in chief of the Italian forces in EasC
Africa, has been on duty on this sloe
of the Atlantic on two different occa-
sionS- In 1921 he visited the united
States with a diplomatic mission. In
1924-25 he was Italian Ambassador TO
Brazil. Although Badoglio has reached
the age of "a, at which our military Oh
ficers are retired, Washington profeS.
sional observers of the Ethiopian CAM
paign believe II Duce's new generalissimo
will infuse vigorous spirit into the