Evening star., 1936-11-13
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

established international reprisal prac-
tice. to which Washington has more than
once resorted or threatened to resort.
At present we are represented at Moscow
only by a first secretary of embassy, who
hasn't much to do. Soviet Ambassador
TroyanovSky continues to function at
Washington in full capacity and to be
widely esteemed. He is regarded as hay-
ing. to the extent of his opportunities,
rendered a creditable account of him
self over here.
Advice on publicity at the Inter-
American Conference in Buenos Aires
will be forthcoming mainly from Secre-
tary Hull's fellow Tennessean. George
Fort Milton, editor of the Chattanooga
News, who is attached to the delegation
as counselor. One of the aides of
Michael j. McDermott, seasoned chief
of the public information division of the
State Department, accompanies the dele
CATION as press contact man. Editor
Milton, in 1924, was nationally promi-
nent as publicity director of William G.
McAdoo's ill-starred campaign for the
Madison Square Garden presidential
nomination. He Is one of Dixie's fore
most publicists and has written biog-
raphies of Andrew johnson and Stephen
A. Douglas. Milton is also chairman of
the Southern Commission on the Study
Of Lynching.
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Frederick Moore. Washington news
paper man. author and lecturer, who
has long been connected with the Japa-
nese government as an American special
ist. has Just returned from four months
visit to the Far East. He comes back
an enthusiastic admirer of what the
japanese are accomplishing in Man.
chukuo, describing its capital, Hsin-
king. as probably not only the most mod
ern but most modernistic seat of gov
ernment in the world. It's public build
ings and streets, he says, would do credit
to Washington. Moore, who won fame
as q correspondent in China 20 years
ago. is sure the Japanese crave interna-
tional recognition OF Manchukuan in
dependence, but are not upset over their
failure to get it and are going about
the business of developing the former
great Chinese province in businesslike
fashion, all the same, through the in
vestment Of enormous capital.
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One of the Roosevelt plums about to
be dropped into the lap Of some worthy
American is the special ambassadorship
to the coronation of King Edward VIII.
President Taft designated his friend, the
late John Hays Hammond, to serve in
that capacity at the crowning of George
v, in 1911. Indications foreshadow a
lively competition for the honor of repre-
senting Jacksonian simplicity at the
royal doings in Westminster Abbey next
May.
Robert W. woolley Of washington. for
mer insterstate commerce commissioner,
claims to be the original "46-State
Roosevelt landslide" man. Last May,
when Landon's nomination seemed a
certainty, Woolley wrote President
Roosevelt that he believed the Demo-
Gratis would carry every State outside
of New England and should win in most
OF the six there. He sent copy OF his
letter to Jim Farley who replied he was
inclined TO agree with the prediction.
Bob" thinks it wasn't recovery that
avalanched F. d. r. into second term,
"but the vote of the lowly, often silent,
which became vocal. named him good
neighbor. and acclaimed him the loftiest
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