Evening star., 1936-11-27
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE,

Although there's some disappointment
that the Moscow ambassadorship was
not bestowed upon a career member of
the foreign service, a check-up reveals
that, barring four or five blue ribbon
posts like London, Paris, Berlin and
Brussels. Uncle Sans Embassies and
Legations throughout the world are for
the most part manned by ENJOYS who
have grown up in the diplomatic pro-
fession. This Is particularly the case in
Latin America. now looming SO con-
Spicuously in this countrys international
plans. The Ambassadors to Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Peru and Cuba all have
service records to their credit. In
Uruguay, Panama, Bolivia, Haiti, Co.
lombia, the Dominican Republic and
Honduras, career Ministers head our
missions. In the Far East, Ambassador
Grew at Toxic and Ambassador john
son at Peiping typify the service tradi-
tion. Recent appointment of AmbaSsa-
dor Phillips to Italy gives us career rep
reSentation there, as does Ambassador
MacMurray in Turkey. Canada. Czecho-
Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland. Rumania,
Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, South Africa,
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Ethiopia
and Iraq complete the imposing list of
countries wherein the United States
now has service men on the job.
Quiet but effective spade work for the
Inter-American Conference at Buenos
Aires was done by New Deal non-career
diplomat, Spruille Braden, who for .
couple Of years has roamed the South
ern continent unobtruSively as Roose-
veltian Ambassador at Large. Yale man,
and financier and mining engineer by
occupation, Mr.. Braden has long been
identified with American industrial op-
erations in Chile, Bolivia and Argentina.
In 1915 he married Senorita del Solar Of
Santiago, Chile. Mr.. Braden was on the
United States delegation to the Pam
American Conference at Montevideo in
1885 and took part in the Bolivian
Paraguayan Peace Conference after the
ChacO fracas. He Is now In Buenos
Aires. Ambassador Braden began life
as miner in Montana, his native heath.
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Possibly encouraged by overwhelming
approval of the Roosevelt regime by the
American people on November 3, Col.
William D. Herridge, former Canadian
Minister to the United States, is reported
to have embarked upon a campaign to
bestow the blessings of New Deal upon
the Dominion. His recent public address
in Toronto was interpreted as advocacy
Of q national planning policy bearing .
cousinly resemblance to current pro-
grams on this side of the border and as
indicating purpose to organize politi-
cal party dedicated to such policies. The
colonel is q brother-in-law Of ex-Prime
Minister Bennett. While Herridge was
on duty in Washington and exposed at
close range to the New Deal, he's sup
posed to have inspired much Of the re-
form legislation which the Bennett gov
ernment sponsored, but which didn't
save it from disastrous defeat in the
Canadian elections last year.
Il H.
Pennsylvania Democrats in Washing
ton will celebrate at . joyous victory
dinner next week, with Senator Guffey
and Gov. Earle as guests Of honor. The
feat of the Guney-Earle machine In
bringing Pennsylvania into the Roose-
welt column by more than a 100000
margin stamps the Senator and the
Governor as outstanding factors in the
Democratic national situation from now
on. Guffey seems definitely headed
toward the sort Of super bossdom
achieved BY famed Penn Republicans,