The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-20
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
WHO'S NEWS |
/ THIS WEEK.
By Lemuel F. Parton
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NEW YORK.-There was a tiger
~ in an open door in China, the
door of a cave, and not John Hays
open door. Young Joseph Clark
Grew crawled in
FTo0eSS cs and killed it. That,
Hunter Won plus decision
Greu !, Lob over very tough
even enraptured, Theodore Roose-
welt that he made the young man a
diplomat.
That was in 1904. In Tokyo, AM
bassador Grew relays notes and
apologies back and forth, as an am
bassador would at time like this,
but his job is lot more important
than that and his qualifications
much greater.
He is a singularly shrewd, tact
full and seasoned career diplomat.
In the State department, it is ap-
parent that, as Governor Landon
said, politics stops at the waters
edge" and Mr.. Grew, Hoover ap-
pointee, has in his experienced
hands the furtherance of the Presi-
dents policy in the Far East at
time of possibly critical tension.
He and Franklin D. Roosevelt had
casual acquaintance at Groton and
Harvard. The young Bostonian, get
ting his sheepskin, lost no time in
heading for Singapore to get him
self tiger skin.
He took on all corners in the jun
gle in any kind of milling they
x.1 wanted, some of
k7ock DoWn it bare handed
Jungle RoUs rough and tum-
His DELIGHT BILE. For two years
he hunted big
game in southern Asia and then
wrote book about it, Sport and
Travel in the Far East"
He had vague ideas then about
what he wanted to do when he fin
ished his jungle engagement, but
was inclined toward writing. The
bear story, red-hot pulp magazine
splash, caught T. RS eye when he
was browsing through young Crews
book. A youth who could get half
nelson on an angry bear was T. RS
idea of a diplomat. AS soon as the
cables were open the next morning,
they were routing Joseph Clark
Grew, the bear-wrangler, into life
time of career diplomacy, via post
with the Egyptian consulate-general
at Cairo.
Without a single foot-slip he
moved on up, through 80 years in
posts at Mexico City, Petrograd,
Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen and
Berne. He was secretary Of the
American delegation at the Yer
sailles peace conference and a
member of many governmental mis-
sions and conferences.
He is fifty-seven years old, tall,
weathered, grazing, with heavy
r,o. gray moustache,
types Jun smoking an old
Reports to drop stem pipe,
President rapping out his
onion-skin reports
to the President on his own SINH
larly durable career typewriter.
Mrs. Grew is a granddaughter of
Commodore Perry, who, for good or
i'll, opened Japan to the West, and
vice-versa, in 1853. Living with them
at the embassy is their daughter,
Mrs. Cecil Lyon, and her two chill
dren.
Diplomats are always getting an
earful of something or other, and
one ear failed to stand the strain.
But, with his one good ear, Mr..
Grew hears plenty and pegs out
concise, always-dependable, reports
to the President.
a MERICANS versed in the ways
L \ and the personalities of inter-
national diplomacy aver that Italy's
loss is the gain of the United States
in the appointment of Count Rene
Doynel de st. Quentin as French
ambassador to this country.
Fifty-four years old and a bache-
lor, accomplished signally in all the
arts of social intercourse as we'll
as in his essential profession of
statecraft, Count st. Quentin is very
precisely an exponent of the tradi-
tional French school of diplomacy.
It will perhaps be recalled that
the count had previously been
named as ambas-
france ana sador to Italy and
Duce Find that, when Musso-
~, yn,oss. lini insisted that
the new ENJOYS
credentials be addressed to ''the
king of Italy and emperor of Eth
opia," the Quai d'Orsay proved re-
calcitrant.
Unwilling to recognize the con-
quest of Halle Selassie's kingdom,
the French insisted that the adj
dress be merely to "the king of
Italy" So arose an impasse which
endures to this day, with both ma
tons lacking that comfy of rela-
tionship and genial understanding
normally implied in ambassadorial
representation.
During the attempt OF France and
Great Britain to ease the Italo-Ethi-
opian situation by negotiation in the
period before the imposition of
sanctions, Count st. Quentin had
served his country as technical ex-
pert in the delicate issue, and pre-
viously, in 1892, he had served in
similar capacity as French repre-
sentative on the international COM
mittee that investigated conditions
in Liberia. In other fields, in the
course of his diplomatic career, his
government has utilized his pro-
found knowledge of African affairs.