Evening star., 1938-01-19

trade agreements program may be a
trend in the same direction, The secre-
tary OF States conduct of Americas for
elgn policy has evoked Nationwide COM
mendation, regardless of politics. He has
easily made the biggest reputation scored
oy any member of the Roosevelt cabinet.
Ihough 100 per cent devoted to F, d. R..
the 1enneSSeean ranks, like so many
southern Democrats of the Carter Glass
school. as a right-Wing New Dealer
around whom conservatives and moder-
ate liberals of all parties could appro-
priately rally.
Shake-ups in the foreign service re-
VlVe interest in the alma mater back
ground of the stars in Uncle Sans dip
lomatic armament. Harvard tradition
ally has more or less dominated the pic
ture. especially among the career men.
1t Is still prominent in it, but honors
are held by the sons of many other uni
versities. Harvard, besides the presi-
dency, still has the undersecretaryship
of state tWelles), the ambassadorships
to Great Britain kennedy), to Italy
Phillips and to Japan Grew. Yale
has France tBullitD and Germany (Wil-
SOM. Princeton claims Turkey Mac
Murray, Cuba tWright and Chile
(ArrnouD. Nelson johnson. Ambassador
to China, is an alumnus of George Wash
ington. Joe Davies. Ambassador to So
Wet Russia. is University of Wisconsin
alumnus. Laurence Steinhardt. Ambas-
sador to Peru. is Columbia man. Fred
erick A. Sterling. Minister to Estonia
and Latvia; Franklin M. Gunther, Min
lister to Rumania: Ray Atherton, Min
lister to Bulgaria, and John Cudahy, Min
lister to Ireland. maintain the Harvard
tradition. Speaking of university back
ground. Secretary Ickes (Chicago, 9O is
addressing the Association of American
Colleges at Chicago tomorrow on the
subject of Whats the Matter With Alma
Mater?"
When the Governors Of the six New
England States were received by Presi-
less an act of graceful White House re-
taliation for the audience accorded the
Governors of the Southeastern States
earlier in January. Some time ago. when
the Chief Executive from the north
eastern neck of Uncle Sans woods
wanted to see Mr.. Roosevelt, it was in
connection with the shipwrecked inter-
state compact for flood control on the
Connecticut and Merrimac Rivers, in
which New Hampshire, Vermont, Con-
necticut and Massachusetts were inter-
ested. Now the Governors of those
States have been joined by their fellow
rulers of Rhode Island and Maine, and
what's principally on their allied and
associated New England minds is pre-
vention Of equalization Of freight rates
and adoption of Nationwide wages and
hours laws without differentials. The
Southeastern Governors, after their
White House pow-wow, were reported
friendly to wages and hours legislation,
but less enthusiastic about equalized
freight rates.
Latest speculation about Bob Jackson
Is that pending Roosevelt guidance into
the presidency via the governorship of
New York. the administration fair
haired boy has been offered Supreme
Court Justice Stanley Reeds vacated So
licitor generalship of the United States.
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Charles A. Davila. retiring Rumanian
Minister to the United States, Is leaving
Washington Sunday to sail for Europe
February 4. While in New York he will
be honor guest of the Council on For
eipn Relations. Mr.. Davila, who is
voluntarily retiring from his couatry's
foreign service, will devote himself to
careful study of political conditions in
Rumania before deciding whether to re-
sumo . public career. Long an ardent
liberal, he is not thoHght to be in SYM
pathy with reactionary tendencies Nhich
recently obtained the upper hand ct
Bucharest. The retiring diplomat has
been stationed In this country eight