Evening star., 1937-06-09
Ickes, then militant progressive, was
once active.

1ckes, then a militant progressive. was
once active.
Diplomatic quarters hear that one of
Uncle Sans seasoned foreign service
career men, Hugh R. Wilson, American
Minister to Switzerland. is favorably in
the running for the assistant secretary
ship of state made available by the re-
cent reorganization of Secretary Hulls
departmental higher-ups. Wilson is cele-
brating his silver jubilee in the diplo-
matte service, having entered it in 1912
as secretary of legation in Guatemala.
He has spent the past 10 years as envoy
at Berne and become a well-known
international figure at the League of
Nations and its long succession of world
conferences. Through his assignment
to Switzerland, Mr.. Wilson rates as the
United States more or less permanent,
though unofficial, spokesman at Geneva
whenever it is necessary for Washing
ton to make its voice or influence felt
at the League. Wilson, Illinoisan and
Yale man, has held many posts of i'm
portance both in the State Department
and the field.
Political issues are not among the
topics formally discussed by the japanese
business leaders visiting Washington this
week. There is one non-commercial
question, nevertheless, which is in the
minds of most of them and will doubt
less be conspicuously SO while here. That
is the thorny issue of our immigration
laws, which exclude japanese from en-
terlng this country on the same pro-
portional basis as non-Orientals. While
successive Toxic governments, since
enactment of the obnoxious legislation
IA years ago. have never made it the
basis Of formal protest, exclusion re-
mains thorn in the japanese side as
an enduring reflection on Nppon's
national honor. The island empire would
undoubtedly welcome the granting of
immigration quota privileges as tangible
evidence Of American good will. 1t is
estimated that a quota would permit
fewer than $50 Japanese a year to enter
the United States. Pacific Coast opinion
is understood no longer to be as anti
quota as formerly.
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Lieut.. Comdr. Leland P Lovette, newly
appointed press officer at the Navy De-
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career afloat and ashore. Graduated
from Annapolis in 1917 just In time to
get into the World War, his maiden
assignment was to command the first
submarine chaser constructed on the
West Coast. Later he was navigator OF
a destroyer operating in the Bay Of
Biscay and the English Channel. The
Peace Conference found Lovette on duty
in Paris. Then came several years of
service in the Far East. High spots in
Lovettes record include the occasion
when he was relieved as commander Of
the gunboat Pampanga, in China, by
Comdr. Spencer, first husband OF the
Duchess of Windsor. In 1927 Lovette
was first lieutenant aboard the U. S. s..
Memphis which brought Col. Lindbergh
to Washington. Lovette Is looked upon
by Washington scribes as one of their
own, because he is the author Of a
book entitled Navy Customs, Tradi-
tions and Usage" while in 1928 he won
the Naval Institutes Gold Medal essay
competition.
Full measure of the slump in Roose-
veltian congressional fortunes is the cir
cumstance that this week-four months
after introduction of the measure-finds
administration Senate leaders at their
wits ends to discover ways and means