The Washington times., 1936-02-01
Lighthearted Diplomacy

Lighthearted Diplomacy
What is a diplomat? Is he man
who tells all or tells nothing?
Mr.. DemetrioS SicilinoS, Greek
Minister, who has just returned
from Miami Meach. is trying tc
decide. AS soon as Mr.. Sicilinos ar
rived in Miami a young newspaper
woman came flashing up to the
sandy shore where he was summing
himself and asked for an inter
view.
"Mr. Minister" she said.
''Will you please give me all
your views on international
matters? First, / should like to
know what you think Of MuSsO-
lini'S invasion Of Ethiopian"
Mr.. SicilianoS choked just q
little. Recovered quickly and said;
This is indeed q beautiful
place, this Florida"
The intent young Journalist
smiled and continued:
Perhaps then, you will
answer my second question -
Do you think England had any
right to send her battleShips
into the Mediterranean"
The Greek Minister faltered
again - for a second - and
answered:
81 think, Miss, you have very
lovely hair"
'eBut Mr.. Sicilianos, this is no
Joking matter. am determined
to get an interview. Tell me
please, do you regard Hitler as
the real menace in EurOpe?"
81 believe, mademOiSelle, that
America is the most wonderful
country in the world; and that
Journalism is a fine avOcatiOn
for a beautiful young LADY,
Whereupon the young lady
looked very annoyed and immedi-
ately departed. In a next days
paper there appeared under her
signature:
'Tt Is remarkable that diplO-
mats seem to take so little in
terest in international affairs.
They are not the SeriOus-minded
people they are supposed to be-"
Lady journalists, especially col.
umnists, have many bitter expert
ences.
Their most precious ideas are
generally misunderstood. May
Craig, who writes an amusing col
umn for three New England pa
pers, suffered and died over the
mutilation Of one Of her ssuperh
thoughts.
Mrs. Craig finished a recent
story with the sentence which was
the story's theme song, There Is
immortality in an idea"
Pleased with this beautiful
philosophy she later searched the
papers that print her syndicate
to see the perfect words in print
But one paper used her noble
phrase correctly.
In the second paper she read;
"There is mortality in an
idea"
The third paper declared There
Is immortality in an idea"
What did the we1l-dresse6
woman wear before 1860?
The Colonial Danes have dis
covered the answer.
They have found the garments
Of their grandmotherS and theil
Observation-Disclosures hidden in at
tic trunks. Tomorrow at private
showing they are exhibiting The
costumes at Dumbarton House. II
80 charming a setting, in rooms
furnished authentically with thu
mahogany, portraits and twin
king candelabra Of early America
the well-dresSed woman will be hel
beguiling self "befo' the War"
Some woman has made JohI
Erskine mad. Or he couldn't sa!
even in "The Influence of Womel
and It's Cure" that:
"W0men Oand together for
mass influence because they are
uneasy in their conscience
about the reasons their men
have for supporting them.
They wouldn't hav time for it
If their men did not pay the
bill"
Women use the Leisure
which mems labor has pur-
chased for them to organize
and tell men what to do. &.
They have interfered in our
education, they ha 'e cancelled
from our political inheritance
some of its creative ideas.
They are perpetuating a more
tragic mischief in Il field of
religion"
''Men will honor the woman
who l. a hOme-maker and the
woman who is a wage-earner.
But shall we tolerate in the fu-
ture the women who are
neither hOme-makerS or wage
earners. Although agr eeabIe
and answering the call to serv.
ice and uplift they are very
dangerous"
What do you suggest tina
women do with their leisure timt
Mr.. Erskine?
MONEV FOR