The Washington times., 1937-01-06

on state occa-
sions by day AdOlph Hitler
and by night in solemn black.
Herr Hitler has decided that it
Is time his republican diplomatic
gloom has a silver lining. Nazi
diplomats will now glitter with rib
bonS and gold braid. The feathers
Of their cooked hats will shortly
sweep the floor as they bow low
with manners and politeness. Thus
will the citizens of a democracy
emulate despised royalty.
At the recent diplomatic recep-
= ton ,at the white House, Minis
ters of monarchies relatively the
size Of the Republican party were
as beautiful as walking Christmas
trees. But the emissaries of great
nations that lately emancipated
themselves from royal rule, looked
as unexciting as crows at a car
nival.
United States diplomats, since
the days of Benjamin Franklin,
have been too proud to bend the
knee except in plus fourS, riding
breeches and maybe during mid
night prayer.
At the recent White House
levee, they, like the Spanish Am
baSSador, Senor de los Rios: the
Russian Ambassador, M. Troyan-
ovsky; the German charge DAT
faires, Herr Thomson and the
Minister of the Irish Free State,
Mr.. Michael MacWhite. wore
"tails and a white tie" And
thus Haunted their freedom from
affectation.
South American republics have
Latin temperament. Their repre-
Bentatives are resplendent on all
possible occasions.
Buying a diplomatic uniform
adds a stiff bit to anybody'S
budget. A conservative guess Of
the cost of Sir Ronald Lindsay'S
gold encrusted garments is $1,000.
But then Sir Ronald is a very big
man indeed. At some parties he
looks like CULVER in Lilliput.
The formal regalia of smaller
sized ambassador of his Royal
Britannia Majesty might be less
expensive.
Mrs. Roosevelt was congrat-
ulated at the delightful luncheon
Mrs. Claude A. Swanson gave in
her honor on the charming ap-
pearance of the Young Roosevelts
at the White House diplomats
reception.
"Oh did they behave nicely?"
Mrs. Roosevelt asked laugh
ingIy. "It was the children's own
idea you know. They begged,
please let us stand beside you
and father at the party. We
want to know the names of the
people. We will hide in the
palms and nobody will know we
are about. It's time we got
acquainted in Washington"
So they did come to the parts,
Elliott and his pretty Texas wife,
Jimmy and Betsy Roosevelt and
tall blond John. Standing beside
the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
they tried to be unobStruSive as
they promised, but most Of the
hundreds of official guests who
passed in line made them shake
hands.
Baltimore, so recently occupy
ing q vivid international role, is
again to take a spotlight in for
eign affairs.
Homewood, the Carroll man
sion which now dominates the
Johns Hopkins University campus
in Baltimore, is to be reproduced
in Monrovia, the capital of Lii
IBERIA, as the official home of
the American Legation there.
Representative Sam D. Mercy
noldS, chairman of the Foreign
Affairs Committee of the House
and chairman of the Foreign
Service Building Commission, has
Just announced this interesting
decision.
The selection of the Carroll
house as a Liberian Legation
model is entirely sentimental.
Maryland and Marylanders-
BaltimoreanS-were important in
the pre-Civil War effort to colo
nize American slaves in Africa.
Charles Carroll, jr., for whom
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
built Homewood in 1881, was the
second president of the Amer
ican Colonization Society. He sue
ceeded Bushrod Washington.
nephew of George Washington
and an associate justice of the
Supreme Court.
Francis Scott Key. whose War
of 1912 patriotism has strained
the vocal chords of this entire
nation with that anxious inquiry
about the Star-Spangled Banner,
also worked with the Liberian col
onizers. He persuaded the Mary
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