Evening star., 1938-10-03
Washington Observations
Peace of Munich Held Destined to Occupy
Dishonorable Place in Worlds History.

recreant to the American concep-
ton of the fundamental rights Of
free nations If I did not embrace
the opportunity OF declining the
award and stating my reason for
doing so.
'The reason is that Might, not
Right, triumphed at Munich on
September 80; that brute force,
intimidation and injustice won q
victory which liberty-loving man.
kind will rue for many a year;
that Messrs. Hitler, Chamberlain,
Daladier and Mussolini did not
fashion peace, but only laid founda-
tions for future war; that by no
conceivable stretch of the imagina-
ton, based on Chancellor Hitlers
own program and record, can men
anywhere believe the Nazi regime
will or can rest content with its
bloodless successes in Austria and
CZechoslovakia.
II beg you to be assured, sirs,
that I thus unburden myself with
profound reluctance. But with
firmness in the right, as God gives
us to see the right, I can do no
other"
Not the least interesting feature of
the Anglo-German peace pledge Is the
fact that the British prime minister's
celebrated father. Joseph Chamber
lain, while colonial secretary exactly
40 years ago, formally projected a
plan whereby Britain and the Reich
would never go to war to settle their
differences. Emperor William II IA
vored the idea and brought it up
when he came to England for Queen
Victoria's funeral in 1901. The
scheme was wrecked on the rocks of
objections made by military men in
both countries. BY 1902, when
Anglophobia was rampant in Ger
many on account of the South African
War, the Chamberlain plan had all
but fallen by the wayside. The CO.
lonial secretary himself, in notable
speeches at Birmingham and Edin-
burgh, was compelled to talk to the
Germans in language that cast his
brain child into the limbo of the
politically impracticable. To the son
has fallen the task of carrying on
where the father left off.
Representative Herman P. Kopple-
mann, Democrat, of Connecticut, who
carried New Deal colors unsuccess-
fully into the late senatorial primary
against incumbent Senator Lonergan,
has decided to run for reelection to
his House seat from the Hartford dis
trlct. First sent to Congress in 1888,
Mr.. Kopplemann was twice reelected
by successfully increased majorities.
One of Washington'y interesting
foreign visitors is Y. Bryan Yamashita
of Toxic. who has come to the
United States to hold William Jen-
nings Bryan memorial service and
pay tribute to the benefactor of his
youth. Mr.. Yamashita is thus fulfill
ing Japanese custom of honoring
departed statesmen and intimate
friends every 13 years. After gradua-
ton from the Lincoln High School
and the University of Nebraska, he
spent 80 years in the service of the
japanese government and is now here
as a private citizen. This year being
the 18th anniversary of the Common
er's passing, Mr. Yamashita chose it
as the appropriate moment for his
visit, on which he is accompanied by
his daughter. In Washington he has
presented letters of introduction from
Gov. Charles w. Bryan to Vice Presi-
dent Garner, Secretaries Hull, Roper
and Morgenthau, Postmaster General
Farley and Senators Pittman, Norris
and Burke.
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Hail Columbia! Happy land! From
world war to World Series!
Copyright. 1881