Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12

ton insist that Mr.. Roosevelt, firm be-
never in Monroeism. would be on legiti-
mate ground In notifying Dictator Var
gas that Brazil has taken a step viola
tive OF the U. S. AS 114-year- old key
foreign policy.
Admiral Claude c. Bloch, new COM
mander in chief of the United States
Fleet. Kentuckian, and Annapolis. 1899,
is regarded throughout the service as
one of the top-notch members of the
naval profession. On the verge of 60.
Bloch is completing his 18th year in
the Navy ashore and af1oat, during which
period he has held many blue-ribbon
posts A brother officer who has served
with him in many parts of the world
describes Admiral Bloch as sailor
armored with an exceptionally keen and
clear-thinking mind, and mounting I'M
usual powers of perception, ANALYSIS and
frm decision. Comrades who observed
him in command of a training squadron
acclaim the admiral as strong ex-
ponent OF discipline and efficiency.
though far removed from martinez.
Because of his tours of duty as chief
OF ordnance and inspector in charge of
the Naval Proving Ground at Dahlgren,
Va. and the Naval Powder Factory at
Indian Head, Md, Bloch has long been
4 bug for gunnery as a fleets prime
quality-a theory first and famousIy
espoused by the late Admiral Sims.
Uncle Sans new skipper believes in
making and keeping the United States
Navy the worlds outstanding fighting
fleet.
Joseph Conrad Fehr of the District of
Columbia bar and founder of The In
quirendo, well-known Washington mems
political study group, is just back from
the American Legion pilgrimage to
Europe. He reports that President
RooSevelts peace moves have made
profound, and on the whole, favorable
impression 'over there" Fehr's native
land, Switzerland, looks upon F. D. R.
as another Nikolaus Won der Flueh
tBruder Klaus, the celebrated hermit
OF Sachseln, who at the time of the Bur-
gundian wars in the latter part of the
fifteenth century, when internecine
strife nearly broke up the Swiss con-
federation, succeeded as mediator in
bringing the warning factions to reason.
One OF the most impressive paintings
in the League of Nations palace at
Geneva commentaries the work of this
Benjamin Franklin of Swiss history who
saved the little confederated republics
from disruption at a critical hour.
When Senator A. Harry Moore, Demo-
crat. OF New Jersey resumes his seat next
week, with only six more weeks to serve
before becoming Governor of New Jer-
sey for the third time, he will estab-
lish something of a precedent on the
Hill. Many Governors have resigned to
enter the Senate, but no one remem-
bers any contemporary instance of a
Senator giving up his job in Congress
for a governorship. Visions of a presi-
dental nomination in 1910 may be the
explanation. Moore has given no in
dication of quitting Washington until
his Inauguration at Trenton on jan
uary 8. Presumably he will embrace the
opportunity, unique under the circum-
stances, of naming his own successor.
There is some talk that he might appoint
his political godfather, Boss Hague of
Jersey City. Other suggestions are that
the plum may fall to Representative
Mary T. Norton, chairman of the New
Jersey State Democratic Committee
first woman Democrat to be elected to
Conr.ess, first woman chairman of a
congressional committee, first woman
chairman of a State committee and
introducer of the first resolution to re-
peal the eighteenth amendment.
Among the heartless comments in
Democratic cloakrooms as the congress
,ional clans gather is q fling at the