Evening star., 1946-08-04
Capital Sidelights
BIZ Will P. Kennedy.

Representative Edith Nourse Rogers,
second ranking Republican on the For
eign Affairs Committee of which her
late husband formerly was chairman,
placed in the Congressional Record q
little story showing that there are tech
niques in dealing with foreign peoples
and governments which have to be
learned "in the field" James Kearney, a
New Jersey newspaper editor, went to
France on an official mission during
World War I. He neither knew France
nor the ways Of the French, but soon
knew he was getting nowhere pretty
fast. He conhded to a friend: There's
one thing I discovered over there.
There's lot of difference between Paris
and Trenton, and you notice it more in
Paris than you do in Trenton"
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Under the caption who Discovered
American" weekly magazine, published
July 81, heralds the fact that the Uni
versity Of Wales claims that honor for
one Madoc, Welshman, and princes
bodyguard, who sailed west in ITO with
a few followers. Their contention is
based on an old book, Historic of Cam
bria," written by an Elizabethan geog-
rapher in 1884, which reports that Madoc
landed in the Western Hemisphere in
what is now Mexico. The magazine
article also states: According to Ameri-
can histories the first Welshmen to set
tie in America came long after Columbus.
They were Baptists who established the
Massachusetts colony Of Swanzey" In
the interests of truth and to set history
straight: More than 80 years ago the
late r. Walton Moore Of Fairfax, an
outstanding authority on Virginia his
tory, then member Of Congress and
later solicitor of the State Department,
which Office was created for him, told
group of his colleagues what he had
found about the early history Of Vir-
ginia in a book by John Esten Cook,
edited by Horace E. Scudder. published
in 1883, with photography Of eight
works published from 1907 to 1924. That
history Of Virginia in the American
Commonwealth series reviews traditional
and conjectural lore about early settle
ments up to the period Of authentic dis
covery, exploration and conquest be-
ginning with Columbus, who sailed from
Palos August 3. 1892; landed on GUIANA
hani or San Salvador, one of the Ba-
hamas, October IL, 1892; and discovered
Cuba October %. Antedating the Welsh
claim of Madoc's voyage In ITO, there
are a dozen dates listed in George w.
Powers book of Important Events"
during the semimythical. traditional
and conjectural history period: 500
AID, Pre-Toltec period; SOB, Mexican
history begins; 900, Toltecs established
throughout Mexico; 861, the Norseman
Nadodd discovers Iceland; 982, Eric the
Red discovers and names Greenland;
9S5, Bjarni sights land at Cape Cod or
Nantucket; 1000, Left Ericsson sails for
Western land; 1902, Thorwald, Leif's
brother, visits vinland (New Jersey;
1904, Thorwald killed in skirmish with
the natives; zoos, Thornfinn Karlsefne
lands in Rhode Island and stays in Vim
land three years; 1850, end Of the Toltec
power in Mexico; 1890, Aztecs begin
their journey toward Mexico.
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Tribute to former Senate page, the
late 1t. Col Roy G. Fitzgerald, jr..
has been paid by the Richard Mont
gomery Chapter, Sons of the American
Revolution, of Dayton, Ohio, his native
city He was the son Of former Repre-
sentative Roy G.. Fitzgerald, who is best
remembered for his authorship of the
cumulative codiflcation system for statu-
tory laws of the United States and
the District of Columbia and his active
leadership in Interparliamentary Union
conferences at Paris, Berlin, Geneva
and London for codification of inter-
national law. Representative Fitz-
gerald served 10 years In Congress after
having been an officer in World War
I. He was an an-round robust athlete
and mountain climber, and still plays
. vigorous game Of tennis although he
is II.