The Washington times., 1937-12-10
Joe Kennedy Will Make
a Great Ambassador

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DESPITE the fact that his middle name is Patrick Joe
~ Kennedy going to make great Ambassador Great
Britain.
He will do lot of grousing over wearing breeche
the Court of St James He won't like putting all the nine
little Kennedys in English schools and he will spend small
fortune on Transatlantic phone calls telling the chief in the
White House that he is homesick
For joe in case you don't him. is happy unless
he groung and the grouses the harder he works
But whether Joe likes the British they to
like him. They will be little surprised first at his breezy
bluntness They will blink his collection of Irish pro-
family and they may even lift their eyebrows his French
poodle pup
But they will like his charm his absolute honesty, his pas
sion fairness and his houghtfuness for the most nsignif
cant person around him. The Brit
In the End They'll ish strange people, but
Lime KennedU they appreciate these things. And
in the end they will love Joe just
because he never pretends to be more than he is.
We understand that there several acknowledgements
reasons for Joe Kennedys apponment-whch perhaps
not behndth when you examine them closely
One of them that dollar and the pound sterling long
have been seesawng up and down with rhyme
so that getting them into alignment should have healthy
influence
background of shrewd Wall Street trading and hardboed
SEC administering, is exactly the to do this
Another question debts in default since the last days
Of the Hoover administration Recently the British have been
making feeble murmurs about settling these-which prob
ably about cents the dollar. And it will take
hardsted Irshman like Joseph Patrick sit the
debttab from the British and keep from losing shirts
After ALL it is lot better keep the unpaid debts
them away for few cents on the dollar.
Then there the question of the BrshAmercan trade
treaty This be face-savng document permitting
Mr.. Hull to chalk up another treaty
ONOuLG ne OnFeWd his list, or it can be far-reach-
BGrgnineF ing step toward closer economic
operation between the two great
Engshspeakng countries Here again. Joe Kennedy should
be shrewd and persuasive bargainer
Perhaps important than any these is in
the Far East and the degree cooperation which shall exist
there between the United States and Britain The
Washington Herald this morning reported that this rather
than the Roosevelt aching jaw behind the Presidents
sudden return from the South The French and British it
reported prepared take frmer in the
= Orient
This brings the root why the President reached
out for of his best administrators time when he is
in need of good administrators and sending
him to London. 1t is the fact that the Roosevelt Admins
ration has adopted definite policy of leaning to the
two democraces France Britain as an off
set to the march dictatorship in Europe Asia and even
South America.
The proposed stabzaton of the dollar the renewal of
war debt discussion and the negotiation of trade treaty
all are parts of this policy.
That friendly cooperation between the United States
France and Great Britain is be encouraged is policy
Roon for V;t1 with which reasonable American will
disagree. But to how far the coopera-
Debate ton should po-rbotbor Il sbo1,la
include common front in the Far East
or ship movements to Oriental waterthere great deal
of room for vital debate.
However, this much be said with certainty: In Joe
Kennedy the American people will have in London man who
never Will neglect their interests yet who will look with svm
pahy and understanding upon that great nation with which
we have much in common