Evening star., 1937-07-09

hood was also in the hurry burly of poll
tics, including two campaigns for the
presidency. preceding appointment to
the Supreme Court by Harding in 1921.
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Germany and other "have-not" nations
may find glimmer of hope in the hint
dropped at the University of Virginias
Institute of Public Affairs this week by
Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles.
Discussing the basis for peace, Secretary
Hull's understudy seemed to hint directly
at the need of appeasing countries clam
oring for raw materials and colonies
Mr.. Welles said: Surely we must have
learned that permanent peace cannot be
founded on revenge; that millions Of
human beings cannot be forced to face
future without hope, cannot be ex-
pected to dedicate the toll of their whole
lives in order that they may thus offer
reparation for the crimes and mistakes,
real or alleged, of the leaders of an ear
lier generation in their fatherland.
think the causes of the ills from which
the world suffers today revolve primar-
lily about the fundamental fact that the
injustices and maladjustments resulting
from the great war-political, economic
and financial-have never yet been
rectified"
Former Senator William Cabell Bruce
of Maryland is doing his bit to explode
the New Deal theory that men in their
70s are ready for the shelf. At r.,
Mr.. Bruce is about to begin writing a
monumental life of Thomas Jefferson
The veteran Baltimore Democrat, who
iol h
to 1929. in hammering at the eighteenth
amendment, already has several histor-
ical biographies to his credit. He won
the Pulitzer Prize in 1918 with his Ben
jamin Franklin Self-Revealed" Bruce S
row Wilson in debating contests when
they were classmates at the University
of Virginia.
Sighs of relief are breathed at the
White House over the apparent determi-
nation of Senator Wagner to remain in
Congress and not tempt fate in a race
with Fiorello La Guardia for the New
York mayoralty. A Wagner-La Guardia
contest would have provided the Presi-
dent with real headache, because of
his fondness for both men and their
devotion to the New Deal 1t would have
been embarrassing in the extreme for
him to favor Wagner against La Guar
dia, who. despite his Republican back
ground, has been an ardent Rooseveltian
No matter who the Democratic nominee
is, F. D. RS troubles will not be over
because he will be reluctant, even in the
name OF party regularity. to take up
arms against Manhattans pugnacious
little flower"
Ray Atherton. long time counselor of
the American Embassy in London, who
has just been appointed Minister to Bull
garia, is famed in the foreign service as
a breaker-in of new Yankee Ambassa-
dors to the Court of st. James. For the
past 13 years he has been showing green
horns the ropes. Among his pupils"
we're Frank B. Kellogg, Alanson B.
Houghton, Charles G. Dawes. Andrew
w. Mellon and the incumbent, Robert
w. Bingham. Atherton, who was at
Harvard with President Roosevelt, is
completing his twentieth year in diplo-
macy. He was banker and an architect
before he started on his international
career at Toxic in 1917.
Senator Robinson, during the court
debate, observed that men are not
always conscious Of the time when they
have passed the climax Of their useful
ness" This IS well illustrated in politics.
hs said, adding. "0ns who has served