Evening star., 1938-02-25
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

earmarked, in the opinion of most in
ternatlonal observers. to be the NaZis'
next victim, will rally around her flag
in Washington on March 7. The occa-
sion will be the first annual meeting
and dinner of the Masaryk Institute.
established to commemorate the life and
achievements of Thomas Garigue Ma
saryk. the George Washington of
Czechoslovakia, who was born on March
I, 1883. At the anniversary dinner the
speakers will include M. Vladimir Hur-
ban. Czechoslovak Minister to the United
states; James G. Mcdonald of the New
YORK Times editorial staff. and Prof.
Herbert Adolphus Miller of the chair of
social economy at Bryn Mawr.
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John Pelenyi. Hungarian Minister at
Washington. who has just launched the
Budapest governments proposal to
square Hungarys debt to the United
States on a 100 -on the dollar. nom
interest basis, has long been active
diplomatically in our country. His ties
with us include his marriage in 1928
to Cleveland belle. the former Sue
Wade Harman, whom he met while on
consular duty in the Ohio metropolis
10 or II years ago. M. Pelenyi began
MS professional career as an attache of
the old Austro- Hungarian Consulate at
p1ttsnurgh, and served in Chicago and
Cleveland before he was transferred to
the foreign office at Budapest. Just
before appointment as envoy to the
United States in 1888, he was Hungarian
Minister resident at Geneva, accredited
to the League of Nations,
&t %*.
When the State Department appro-
priation bill was before q House sub
committee in December, Representative
Bacon, Republican, of New York grew
inquisitive about Ambassador Joe Davies
weakness for vacations Having as
serted that IF it is important enough
for US to have an Ambassador at Mos
COW, 1t is important enough to have him
stay at the post" Bacon asked M. p.
Davis, chief Of the Division of Foreign
Service Administration, to give the
committee the facts about Davies wan
derlust. Secretary Hull's aide there
upon revealed that between the time
the Ambassador assumed his duties in
the U. s. S. r. on January 10. 1887,
until December 81. 1871 period of
roundly 345 days-he was away for q
grand total of 199 days. He was absent
on ohicial business approximately SO
days; on leave with pay. 70 days, and
on leave without pay, 81 days The
itinerant ENJOYS most recent sojourn
In the United States was a holiday
sans salary.
Chinese Ambassador DR.. c. r. Wang,
In . brilliant little Rotary Club address
this week, tilted automatically, but
definitely, at what he termed the Zip
service" rendered by those nations
which had solemnly entered into inter-
national agreements" to curb aggres-
sion, renounce war and limit armaments,
but have not lived up to them. "serv-
ice" being the guiding star Of Rotary,
"Dr. Wang said to his fellow clubmen
there is one service we must studiously
shun and avoid, and that is lip service"
The Yale-educated Ambassador is q
Shanghai rotarian and disclosed to his
Washington brethren that there are 80
rotary clubs in China.
President Roosevelt is expected shortly
to appoint q successor to the late Cary
r. Grayson as national chairman OF the
Red Cross. Except for former Chair
man DR.. Livingston Farrand, who re-
signed to become president of Cornell
University in; 1921 and who received
$4,000 sa1ry. the Craftsmanship has
been an honorary Job, and vas held -