Evening star., 1936-04-01
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE.

There will be an election in Europe in
September in which some prominent
American citizens will have stake. The
Council and Assembly of the League of
Nations will fill two vacancies on the
World Court, including the judgeship
relinquished by former Secretary of State
Frank B. Kellogg. Four candidates
from this country have been placed in
nomination. DR.. Manley o. Hudson, pro-
fessor of international law at Harvard
and member of the Permanent Court of
Arbitration at The Hague. has been NOM
mated by the United States. Austria,
Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Colombia,
/ Cuba. Czechoslovakia Denmark, Estonia
Finland, France, Great Britain, Greece
Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary. Iraq, Irish
Free State, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg. the
Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland. Ru-
mania, Siam, Spain. Sweden, Switzer-
land. Turkey, Uruguay and Yugoslavia.
Former Secretary of State Henry l..
Stimson has been nominated by France,
the Netherlands. Belgium and Panama.
DR.. Philip Marshall Brown, former pro-
fessG of international law at Harvard
and Princeton, has been nominated by
Austria. DR.. James Brown Scott, Secre-
tary of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, has been nominated
by Peru The League Council and As
sembly vote separately, but must agree
on a candidate before the election Is
final. Majority vote controls.
Sir Thomas Hohler who has been
guest at the White House during the
past few days along with Lady Hohler.
is a distinguished retired member OF
the British diplomatic service. His
friendship with the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt dates from World War days,
when from 1914 to 1918, Sir Thomas,
not then yet knighted, was counselor of
the British Embassy in Washington. He
left the foreign service >in 1888 after
serving as British Minister to Denmark.
Sir Thomas long career in many coun-
tries included tours Of duty in Mexico
and Peru, and he once served as British
charge daffaires in Ethiopia.
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Gov. Clayton Douglass Buck of Della
ware, who has Just been paying his re-
spects to Gov. Landon at Topeka, is
like the Kansas executive, one of the
few Republican Governors now in Office
who achieved a second term in the midst
of the New Deal era. Gov Buck has
long been regarded one of the up-and-
coming young Republicans Of the coun-
try. Despite his denial of the soft i'm
peachment, he is regarded as ideal tim
Der for second place on Landon ticket,
If such there is to be. The Delawarean
is a civil engineer by profession. His
wife is a member of the Du Pont family.
He became Governor in 1929 and was
reelected in 1888.
There was definition bee" at New
York's Town Hall the other night. A
lady named Miss Vera Bagley defined
boondoggling as "a w. p. A. project
that's ridiculous and impractical"
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Reports, which lack official confirma-
ton, have been kicking about Washing
ton to the effect that Chester G. Davis
A. A. A. administrator may not resume
those activities in the Department OF
Agriculture when he returns from Eu-
rope later in the year. The story goes
that he may instead devote himself to
the management of the Roosevelt cam
paign in the Middle West. Mr.. Davis
name has also been mentioned as the
prospective farm member of the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System Politics would not be a new
game for Secretary Wallace's right-hand
man. In the 1928 presidential campaign,
In cooperation with George N. Peek, he
was vice chairman and secretary Of the