Evening star., 1937-09-13

retirement. The group includes Under
secretary Sumner Welles, Ambassador
William Phillips and Leland Harrison.
Minister to Switzerland. During his
own detachment from the service Mr..
Gunther gratified hobby by founding
the American Institute for Persian Art
and Archaeology, of which he has been
president since 1880. At Bucharest
Gunther will be a near neighbor of
his brother-in-law, Ray Atherton, an
other seasoned career diplomat. who is
now Minister to Bulgaria. They mar
ried sisters.
Louis Brownlow chairman of the
Presidents Committee on Administra-
tive Management, has Just sailed for
Europe to recuperate after a protracted
illness from which he was convalescent
In Atlantic City several weeks this Sum-
mer. The Warren bill and other meas
ures comprehending renovation of the
Federal structure passed the House in
July and August, but were caught in the
adjournment jam and are now gathering
dust in the Senate Committee on Gov
ernment Organization. It's expected Mr..
Roosevelt will beat the tom-tom for
reorganization during his planned trip
across the country-a project which. by
the way, according to late word drifting
down from Hyde Park, F. D. R. is less
confident of being able to carry out.
The Far East is to blame.
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Mrs. Irene de Bruyn Robbins. assistant
chief of the foreign service buildings divi-
sion at the State Department, recently
cleared for action to make life endurable
Tor our envoy at Monrovia, capital of
Liberia. The celebrated hinges of Hades
swing at their hottest in that tropical
cline. Plans were drawn for a new
legation, supposedly in keeping with
Llberlan architecture. They called for
a one-story establishment, so designed
as to exposures, windows, ETC., as to at
tract maximum of sun in climate
Where 100 in the shade is considered
a cold wave. Mrs. Robbins and her late
dlplomat husband never sweltered in
Liberia, but she needed only a glance
at the blue prints to convince her that
Uncle Sam might at any time find him.
self with a parboiled envoy on his
hands there. At Mrs. Robbins instiga-
tion, specifications were altered so as
TO provide for a house with fewer of
the qualities of an oven.
Mr.. Roosevelt's Constitution day speech |
will be his first prepared public utter |
ance since world peace was endangered |
by the Sino-Japanese war The ad- |
ministration is under such hot cross |
fire respecting the neutrality act that it |
wouldn't be surprising if the President !
uses his opportunity at the Washington |
Monument Friday evening to discuss the !
Far Eastern crisis and his intentions
regarding it. The recent Hyde Park
statement that American citizens remain
in the war zone at their own risk has
churned up about the bitterest criticism
Roosevelt-Hull foreign policy has ever
encountered.
From the publicity wing OF the Cham
Der of Commerce of the United States
there has just been issued a 30-paQe
bulletin summarizing the late session
OF Congress It's the meatiest treatise
OF its kind Washington has perused in a
long time. The bulletin tabulates eyery-
thing that happened Oh Capitol Hill
from January 5 to August 21-details
OF appropriations, bills which became
law, resolutions of investigation and in
quiry, bills vetoed or rejected and meas
ures advanced but did not pass In
every case there is terse digest of
the content and present status of each
act in question.
(Copyrisht. 1937.)