Evening star., 1939-07-23

representative blOOm once Is IN
the Office building-but the typist
smiles, and everything is all right,
and, anyway, the chairman will have
to be seen downstairs, for he is on
the floor of the House.
We get a glimpse of the large
room on one side where the gentle
men of the committee meet and the
charming woman member, Repre-
sentative Rogers of Massachusetts,,
and then we cast 1eeting look into
the private Office on the other side
OF the reception room and recall one
winters day as we sat and talked
with Mr.. McReynolds before the old
fireplace. He talked of the begin
nings of diplomacy in America be-
fore the Revolution when Benjamin
Franklin, Arthur Lee and others
were in Europe as agents of the
various Colonies: of the first Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs, which
was the outcome of Committee of
Secret Correspondence, headed by
Franklin-finally the name was
changed to Committee of Foreign
Affairs, which became representa-
tive of Congress.
The present chairman of the COM
mittee Is man of long business
experience, and we found him in
terested in the proposal to strength
en- hemisphere defense by construct
ing warships and making munitions
for the Latin American republics
in the United States The Blooms
have long been popular in diplo-
matte society, their drawing room
being about as near to a salon as
Washington can boast Of. Both Mrs.
and Miss Bloom are excellent lin
gusts and great help to the Rep
resentative. Miss Bloom speaks and
writes five languages. 1t is per-
haps we'll known that when the
Blooms were in Fiume in 1920, when
d'Annunzio held Fiume against the
consent of the Italian government
and the entente governments, Miss
Bloom wrote some of the editorials
for his paper. Their friendship with
him continued until his death.
Miss Bloom COmplimented
BY MussOlini.
1t was later, when his rival in the
regeneration of Italy took over af-
fairs, that Miss Bloom met MuSSo-
lini, and it was she who wrote the
first articles in English about him
as world figure. Later, when she
was in Italy, he paid her marked at
tention, pronounced her one of the
most brilliant women that he had
ever met and decorated her Rep
resentative Bloom, as director gen.
eral of the Constitution Sesqui-
centennial Commission, was the best
publicity agent the First President
ever had, making the entire world
conscious of his greatness and serv-
ices to mankind BY the way, the
London Illustrated has found that
President Washington through his
Warner descent is second cousin
six times removed to Queen Eliza
beth of England. We do not know
whether she was aware of this when
she visited Mount Vernon on her
recent visit to America.
The Washington family tree pub
lished in the Illustrated London
News of June "a is taken by per-
mission of the New York Genealogi-
cal and Biographical Society from
an article on the Queen of Eng
lands American ancestry and "cous-
inship' to Washington and Lee by
Mr.. Anthony r. Wagner, Portcullis
Pursuivant College of Arms, London,
to be published shortly in the soci-
etys records. This ancestry traced
by Mr.. Wagner, SO far as he can dis
cover, has not been previously noted.
The discovery is very interesting to
those who like genealogy. The rela-
tionship comes through the Bowes-
Lyon branch of the Queens family.