Evening star., 1937-04-12

famous chief of intelligence in the
A. E. F., who lately commanded the
End Corps Area at Governors Island,
has been appointed director Of participa-
tlon by the 48 States Of the Union. Rear
Admiral William H. Standley, former
chief OF naval operations is director of
foreign participation. Big national or
ganizationS, commercial and otherwise,
are constantly on the lockout for execu-
tiyeS with distinguished Army or Navy
background. Maj. Gen. Robert C. Davis,
former adjutant general of the Army, is
now executive director of the extensive
New York chapter of the American Red
Cross, the most important unit of that
organization outside of national head
quarters in Washington
Prince Chichibu, brother of the En-
peror of Japan, and his consort-the
former Washington schoolgirl Setsu
Matsudaira - after attending King
Georges coronation and touring
Europe, will recross the Atlantic for
visit in the United States next October.
They will tarry in Washington for sew
eral days as guests at the Japanese En-
bassy and be the recipients of distin-
guiShed official and private hoSpitalities
here. Princess Chichibu's former COM
rades at Friends School look forward
with particular excitement and Joy to
the privilege of entertaining their one
time hockey and tennis playmate in her
august capacity as a member of the
japanese imperial family.
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William R. Castle, assistant to Repub-
lican National Chairman Hamilton. sig
nailed in a New York speech the other
day that the minority party may pres
emily renounced the role of passive resist
ance on the Supreme Court and other
currently controversial issues and take
the offensive, instead of leaving it ex-
clusively to the Democrats to fight things
out among themselves as family feud.
Many congressional sons of the elephant,
it appears, are beginning to hear from
back home that mere sit-down attitude
in times like these does not become the
Grand Old Party and that the hour has
come to abandon Gandhi tactics and
put on war paint.
M, Gilbert Chinard, brilliant French
man who few years ago was member
of the Washington press gallery as
American correspondent of LIE Petit
Parisien, and who combined journalism
with lecturing at Johns Hopkins in Balti-
more, has just been appointed Pyne
Memorial professor of French literature
at Princeton. He will fill the chair
created in honor of Percy Rivington
Pyne, son of Old Nassau who died of
World War injuries suffered while fly
ing in France.
In the midst of repeated and inSistent
White House denials that President
Roosevelt plans some spectacular move
on behalf of international peace, this
weeks annual meeting of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science
at Philadelphia will discuss eXhauS-
lively the topic of The United States
and World War" Special stress will be
laid on the questions whether war is
imminent and whether Uncle Sam can
or should be neutral" Senator Thomas,
Democrat, of Utah will participate in
symposium on How the United States
Can Aid in Maintaining Peace" DR..
Stanley K. Hornbeck, chief of the Far
Eastern division of the State Depart
ment, will speak on 1.-THE Cause and
Occasion of Our Entry into the World
War"
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