Evening star., 1938-03-04
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

ment as the most terrible tyranny in
history. He predicts the Russian people
VIII eventually throw out the Communist
dictatorship and establish a truly demo-
cratlc government. Kerensky, who is
sald to have acquired fluent command
OF English since he was last here. re-
trains from prophesying how soon the
Stain regime might collapse, but is per-
suaded its doom is sealed The Cars
immediate successor, now a man of 56,
lives In Paris, where he edits New Rus
sia, periodical which serves as a link
among democratic Russians" domiciled
abroad.
Speaking of Russia. there's no dearth
of candidates for the ambassadorship to
the U. S. S. r., which will be available
as soon as Joe Davies is transferred to
Belgium next summer. Those said to
be prominently in the running INCLUDE
a New York engineer with the aristo-
cratic Anglo-SaXon name of Charles
Edward Stuart, who has been on Soviet
engineering service. He's a native of
Alexandria. Va. In 1934-36 Mr. Stuart
was executive vice president of the Ex-
port-1mport bank of lamented memory
and futile existence. Another of Dame
Rumor's Moscow candidates is Dr. Henry
F. Grady, vice chairman of the United
States Tariff Commission and formerly
one of Secretary Hull's chief aides on the
reciprocal trade agreement program.
Lowell Mellett, former editor of the
Washington Daily News, is also among
the honorably mentioned for the Soviet
diplomatic job.
Turner Catledge, brilliant young staff
correspondent of the New York Times,
who recently returned to Washington
from closeup survey of the Brazilian
dictatorship at Rio de Janeiro, spins an
amusing yarn about how the lately pre-
dominant political party down there, the
1ntegralista, got its name. 1t was the
creation Of young mystic of Portuguese
origin, Plinio Salgado. He told Mr.. Cat
ledge that he borrowed the idea from
integral calculus, that branch of mathe-
matical analysis which, Mother Hub
bard-like, covers everything. For the
same reason. Salgado explains, the In
tegralistas adopted Sigma, the 18th let
ter in the Greek alphabet, as their in
sigma. because it comprehends "allness"
The Washington scribe thinks the Bra
zilians are little miffed by the failure
of our flying fortresses," which recently
greeted Argentine President Ortiz at
Buenos Aires, to tarry in Brazil on the
way home. The official alibi is supposed
to be that landing facilities were in
adequate.
Apropos this weeks celebration of
Gen. Frank T. Hines fifteenth success
sive year as administrator of veterans
affairs, it's a little startling to realize
that disbursements for relief, Of World
War Veterans" now considerably exceed
the aggregate of our unredeemed World
War debts. Up to June 20, 1887. the
veterans had received S12,l10,4l1.9 1926.
The sum by the end of the current fiscal
year will be $4,000 000,0 900, or more AS
of January 81, 1888, our defaulting Euro
pean friends owed us a mere $12.493,-
100000, including principal and interest
in arrears. The House Pension Com
mittee on February l acted favorably on
a bill to grant monthly payments to
widows and children of World War vet
Grams who died of non-Service connected
disability, and without the requirement
that the veteran shall have been In re-