Evening star., 1939-10-30

lin-inspired World Court deluge a
couple of years ago. The Detroit
radio priests epistolary adherents
came to bat on neutrality, all right,
but they didn't even get to first
base this time. The Senate was
not impressed. The House tradi-
tionally is more susceptible to pres
sure propaganda on these occasions,
and it would be rash to predict that
ratification of the Senate's action
in the lower branch this week is a
foregone conclusion. incidentally,
a Republican representative imparts
to this observer that it's easy to
identify Father Coughlin's CORE
spondents because, whether it's neu-
trality, World Court, or any other
controversial issue, they always
ring in somewhere a query as to
when Congress is going to resume
its constitutional prerogative ito
coin money and regulate the value
thereof" the eternal theme song of
the pastor of the Shrine of the Little
Flower at Royal Oak Which re-
minds this column, in passing, that
two Royal Oaks" were sunk this
month.
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purge" Senators Stand by President.
Exactly one year ago this week.
on the eve of the 1898 congressional
elections, the air was thick with
talk of the administration purge of
insurgent Democratic Senator's.
Cotton Ed Smith of South Carolina,
George of Georgia and Tydings of
Maryland had all felt the personal
lash Of President Roosevelt from the
hustings in their own States. When
the roll was called for final passage
of the Roosevelt-Hul neutrality
bill on October 27. only two of the
seven or eight Senators who sought
reelection, despite the White House
ban-Clark of Missouri and Nc
Carran of Nevada-Were found in
opposition. All the rest of the
Would-be ''purgees" voted for and
with the nistration-Tydings of
Maryland. George of Georgia. Gill
lette of Iowa, Adams of Colorado,
Smith of South Carolina and Van
Nuys of Indiana. If that isn't pa
triotism rising above petty politics,
what is?
McNary and Hoover Hats in Ring.
From out of the Golden West, the
Far Northwest and the Coast come
interesting rumbles of impending
1910 Republican events. Minority
Leader Senator McNary of Oregon
has permitted the use of his name
by friends anxious to pitchfork him
into the presidential race. as the
farmers friend. 1t is said they hope
to enter the convention with solid
blocks of McNary delegates at least
from Washington. Oregon and
Idaho. Herbert Hoover's admirers,
making no bones of his receptivity
and Barkis mood, are reported &C
lively organizing to capture the
California delegation for the chief"
while basking in the sunshine of
confidence that with it they'll take
some adjoining delegations from the
Coast region into the convention
flying Hoover colors. Both McNary
and the eX-President, under no illu-
sions as to their own prospects, are
quoted as seeking merely to influ-
ence the party's nomination.
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Statesman Ex-D. c. Resident.
In the new government that has
just been formed in Estonia under
the presidency of Prof. Uluots, for
mer President of Parliament, the
post of minister of foreign affairs,
of particular Importance at this time
in view of the Estonian alliance with
Soviet Russia, has been given to
Ants Pip, an outstanding authority
on international law. M. Pip will
be recalled in Washington as hav-
ing been the first Minister of Esto-
MIA to the United States after the
World War, when the little Baltic
republic achieved its independence
from Russia. Later he became head