Evening star., 1938-03-23
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

Austria had donned the German woke.
To them was unfolded a seductive nlan
whereby they would become MANAGING
editors of the projected newspapers, II
IN number and to be published daily
under the general auspices of the Ger
man-Amerlcan Volksbund at New York.
The Inquirer's dispatch reports that l3
OF the 10 men convened to consider the
scheme turned it down on the spot, and
walked out on the proponent, who had
peen introduced to them as Mr.. Urch.'
ne was understood in reality to be of q
oinereht name and member of either
tne German Embassy or Austrian Lege-
tlon. Mr.. Prochnik, Austrian Minister
10 the united States until he was purged
out OF his job the other day, claims to
thls observer the story is without founda-
tlon. He says his late legation was
CLOSED on the day in question and that
ne hlmsef was not in the city.
First-hand information on conditions
in and around Marking has Just been
brought to Washington by George A.
Fitch ranking representative of the
Y. M. c. A. in China. He was an eve
witness of the military operations which
ended in Japan's capture of Chang Kai-
shek's capital in December and of its
accompanying horrors. State, War and
Navy Department officials were able,
through facts and figures presented by
Mr. Fitch, to piece together valuable
and up-to-date picture of events in
CHINA, past, present and prospective.
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In answer to shoal of recent in
quiries regarding pronunciation and
meaning of various names currently in
the international news-Hitler's title,
der Fuehrer." means "the leader" and
Is pronounced as if the two words were
spelled dare Fearer," the latter as in
the word fear. Czechoslovakia is pro-
nounced as if spelled Check-o-slo-
vahkia, with the accent on the vahk. The
Sudeten pronounced Sue e-detten and
meaning the mountain region of that
name) Germans in that country, now
ag1tating for autonomy, with Hitler's
blessing, are so called because they in
habit the Sudeten or northern rim
OF Czechoslovakia known as Bohemia.
Hell, Hitler!' the greeting which
all Nazis are compelled by law to
give one another on any and all occa-
sions, means Hail. Hitler!" Austrians
are now compelled to say Hell, Hitler!"
instead OF their traditional and ancient
greeting of "Gruess Gott" Greet God.
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Not long ago certain $4,000 -a-year
public relations assistant to a prominent
cabinet officer earned his annual pay at
one fell swoop by preventing his boss
from pulling terrific boner. The dis
tinguished departmental chief, referring
to q late international conference par
ticularly near and dear to the heart of
Secretary Hull, remarked at a press
pOw-wow that he thought Will Rogers
was right when the humorist said that
Uncle Sam had never lost war or won
a conference. The cabineteer's publicity
man jumped In just in time to tip Sec
Tetary -- to add that the crack
about the -- conference was, of
course, off the record.
Jesse, H. Jones, r. F. C. chairman, al
ready has a memorial in Texas 9 feet
loftier than the Washington Monument.
It is the 564-foot San Jacinto Memorial
just erected on the battlefield which was
the scene of Gen. Sam Houston's VIC
tory over the Mexican Army in 1886.
The great white shaft was constructed
at the joint cost of the State of Texas,
p. w. A., w. P. A. and the Federal
Government through q direct grant.
Jones Was the predominant force In the