Evening star., 1942-01-11

mind and a keen analytical attit,
decided in his days work; he has
the saving grace of humor, and the
absolute faith that in the final out
come justice must triumph.
It must be that this motto Is also
the guiding rule of Mrs Roosevelt,
and what enables her to get through
all the public and private activities
which are part Of her daily life.
Mrs. Roosevelt Won
British Admiration.
Both Mr.. Churchill and his staff
expressed amazement at the many
and various duties which Mrs.
Roosevelt crowds into 24-hour day.
Her unfailing courtesy, her gracious
hospitality, the little things she
constantly did for the personal COM
fort of her guests and the warm
friendliness of both the President
and herself, as one expressed it.
was the brightest picture they had
to carry back to England. The
British visitors found that while
the talk of democracy was rampant
in the world the Roosevelt family
not only preached it but prscticed
1t.
One Of the Prime Minister'S aides
met Mrs. Roosevelt coming down
from the White House attic carry
ing two chairs and gallantly offered
to relieve her of them. She laugh
ingly answered that she could not
let 60 of them and added that they
we're desperately in need of chairs.
He said he did not think the aver
age woman in Mrs. Roosevelt's posi-
ton and with her multitudinouS
duties would have known that there
were spare chairs in the attic.
Mr.. Churchill is said to have en-
joyed immensely some of the gor-
geous sunsets from the windows Of
the White House and the after-glow
over the Washington Monument. He
likes best to paint landscapes and
trees.
The White House must have been
q cheerful contrast to the grim,
somber No. 10 Downing street, the
official residence of Englands Prime
Minister.
BY the way. Downing street was
named after an American, George
Downing. later Sir George Downing.
a nephew of Gov. Winthrop of
Massachusetts, who went over to
England with letters from distin.
et in tIic $4
Oliver Cromwell and built and lived
in the first No. 10 Downing street.
Mrs. Hull Inspected
Famous Residence.
The most charming picture we
have had of Downing street was
the one given by Mrs. Cordell Hull
when she returned from the confer
ence which the Secretary headed in
1888. After luncheon there Ishbel
Macdonald, whose father was then
Prime Minister, took her all over
the famous old house-even down
in the basement kitchen, which was
quaint and where the cook did not
need nor want any modern improve
ments. There was the big, old-fash-
ioned oven for the famous roast
beef-alas, now available only for
the fighting forces-and the York
shire pudding, either of which would
have been contaminated by gas or
electric stove.
Mrs. Hull was intensely interested
In the pictures and portraits lining
the walls of the great stairway She
said that through these portraits of
the prime ministers of England one
could trace the political evolution
of the empire-Whigs, Conserva-
tives, Liberals and Socialists. We
think it was Ambassador Choate
who said Downing street was the
smallest, yet the greatest street,
in the world
1t was announced some time ago
that Lord Beaverbrook, who after
World War I led the way in hiring
artists to do the work of war memo
rials, is again interested in the
painting of battlef1elds. shipyards,
training camps, munitions factories
and prominent men in the present
wal dAA0 4AoS d41 Cdoy o4oSuOoCo GIlC
matter with some of England's most
distinguished artists.
It was only few days ago that we
visited the collection of war por-
traits made in 1919 and 1921, which
are exhibited in the national collec-
ton of fine arts at Tenth street
and Conotitution avenue. We we're
specially struck by the truthfulness
and clarity of the work by John C
Johansen, whose portraits of Field
Marshal Haig, the peasant faced
old Marshal Joffre, the Italian Pre-
mier Orlando and the beautiful por-
trait of Gen. Diaz, commander-in-
chief of the Italian armies in 1917
are outstandingly fine. Mr.. Johan-
sen. born in Copenhagen, was
brought to this country as a child
His pictures painted in Iceland,
whose long, hard winters he loved
with the bright starlit nights and
the wondrous display of northern
lights, are largely in the Chicago