Evening star., 1939-03-20
Washington Observations
Americas Diplomatic Intelligence Service
Proves Accuracy in New Crisis Abroad
gress is asked to validate the Bra
Zilian-American financial alliance,

gress is asked to validate the Bra
zilian- american financial alliance.
Washington authorities warn all
concerned not to imagine that the
protests, warnings and hints which
John Bull and Uncle Sam have Just
fired at Hitler are empty words. Be-
hind them IS more than meets the
eye. The Nazis cannot live on ter
ritory alone. AS the Fuehrer said
to his marionette Reichstag on jan
uary 80, Germany must export or
die" She cannot export without
manufacturing. She cannot manu-
facture without raw materials. She
cannot get raw materials without
foreign exchange-pounds and dol
lars-with which to buy rawstuffs
essential to her industry, including
her chief industry. rearmament. I'm
til semi-paralyzed Nazi export trade
is revived, pounds and dollars can
not possibly be obtained. Britain
and America, "by methods short of
war" (Mr. Roosevelt's phrase) have
in their power to tie Germany into
an economic knot. Hitler's troops
had hardly goosestepped their way
into Prague before Britain Cancelled
her plan to send a trade mission to
Berlin. The Czecho-S -Slovak grab
has sunk without trace the Nazis'
hope of trade agreement with this
country.
Observation-Disclosures aggression
has wiped out, successfully, Ameri-
can diplomatic establishments in
four different countries-Ethiopia,
Austria, Spain and Czecho-S -Slovakia.
Nominally, we still have an embassy
in Spain and legation at Prague,
but nothing but consular flags now
wave In Addis-Ababa and Vienna.
Ambassador Claude Bowers, still ac-
credited to Madrid, is in Washing
ton, waiting to know just where and
to whom he is to report in Spain,
while Minister Wilbur Carr at
Prague is momentarily likely to find
his usefulness there at an end.
X
Associate Justice Felix Frankfurt
ter will make his maiden public ap-
pearance in Washington, since going
to the Supreme Court, at the Harv-
and Clubs dinner April 26 He and
President Conant will be the only
speakers and the local Harvard con-
tingent, whose name is legion. is
looking forward to a rare evening.
The Capitals favorite minstrel,
George O'Connor will furnish the
lighter entertainment. incidentally,
this year marks Frankfurters 25th
anniversary as a member of the
Crimson law faculty. The New
Deal landscape is bountifully dotted
with former pupils Of "the little pro-
fessor." Many were brought into
it directly through his influence.
It's not widely known that long
before the Roosevelt era, Frank
furter-recommended young men
were frequently drafted for service
in various branches of the Govern
ment. Charles Warren, foremost
authority on the Supreme Court and
the Constitution, and himself a dis
tinguished son of John Harvard,
thinks Justice Frankfurter's pre-
eminent talent as a teacher Of the
law was his genius as a "stimulator"
Of the interest of his students in the
essence and science Of Jurisprudence.
Results Of President Roosevelt's
search through his thesaurus for
something better than "appease-
ment" to typify the New Deals
modified attitude toward business
haven't been disclosed. Meantime,
one of the famed hecklers among
the White House correspondents
thinks business delusion" is the
right term. Attorney General Frank
Murphy, who blossomed out at his
latest press conference as a busi-
ness conciliator, dwelt upon his
departments policy of avoiding
needless friction" in business-gov-
eminent relations. That strikes this
observer as a top-notch definition of
what F. r. D. r. APPARENTLY wants
the country not to misinterpret as
an administration retreat from fixed
economic ideas.