| Show I Merry Round Merry Go R Round und Trade MarkBy Murk Mark By DREW PEARSON end and ROBERT OBERT ALLEN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON During During the next few months or years the important all question of whether the United States remains at peace or war will hinge in large part upon what ha happens pens within a gnarled and building adjacent nt to the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House called the state department While the armed services services' have hav doubled their expenditures ord ordered red the latest bombing planes de developed eloped a a. anew new poison poiso gas and andin invented a secret machine gun n capable of f hitting a ladys lady's handkerchief handkerchief handkerchief chief three mil mils miles s away the state department has remained static State department halls are as s somnolent as serene and as unsullied by the realities realities reali- reali ties ies of life as they were two decades decad s ago Mr Hull lull has been content to limp along with neither increased personnel nor increased e expenditure The result of this and other factors has been a freezing of personnel a congealing of viewpoint a fixation of methods which leaves American di diplomacy diplomacy diplomacy di- di rn more r re antiquated than Civil war cavalry against modern tanks Efficient Bureaus Bureau There exist of course two cases I I in n the state d department rather where brains rather than na precedent prevail The Latin-American Latin division after ye years ars of bungling b below low the Rio Grande is isone isone isone one of these while the Near Eastern division now one of the most important because of its handling of Ethi Ethiopian pian affairs is also strange to say one of the he most efficient divisions of the department Its chief Valla Wallace e Murray is s intelligent tho though gh slightly overstuffed slightly y ove oversold sold cm his own importance Once a great believer in protecting he the rights of American corporations abroad under Harding larding and Coolidge he is skilled like most of his lis colleagues in the art of facing about-facing on a a ten- ten cent piece and casting the same rights overboard without compunction under tinder Roosevelt Its Ethiopian expert Paul Ailing Alling is a comparative comparative com corn youngster who has roamed the temples and md the markets fish-markets of the Near East until he can forecast down to the last T the conclusions of the Oriental mind Western Vestern Europe rope If If Ethiopian experts were all Mr Hull had to worry about life for him would be easy Unfortunately Unfortunately Unfortunately Un Un- fortunately however it is the much less tractable problem of Italy and the much less efficient western western west west- em ern ern E European division ruch which are chiefly involved Chief of the western European division is rimmy Dunn Jimm Jimmy once wore tight tight blue blue pants as asa aa a sailor boy until he married Mary Armour and the Armour millions millions- after which h he entered diplomacy macy became chief protocol officer to the WhiteHouse White House and told all Washington where to sit and why Later h he wen went with Mr Hull to t the e MonI Montevideo Mon Mon- I conference Cordell Hull Bull However it is not Mr Hulls Hull's assistants in the last analysis who are so futile utile as is Mr Hull him him- self Cordell Hull Hullis js is one of the thc most lovable and intentioned best old gentlemen ever to grasp the helm lelm of the state department He lIe cannot seem to lift ift his eyes above the petty piles of political refuse that litter his immediate vision to the hurr hurricane cane clouds beyond The result is that during these the most hazardous hazardous hazardous haz haz- days since since 1914 the entire state department s sincere c re charming idealistic as it is seems is-seems seems to totally totally to- to tally incapable of doing a single thing to stop the i awesome onslaught t of another world catastrophe Rural Rehabilitation A significant difference of opinion has de developed developed de- de velo cd between the president and Rex T Tugwell gw U. U m Tug cU who h has s been given the extremely ely important job of directing rural jural rehabilitation wants to spread the work over ove a period of f years He points put out that of transplanting farm communities from ridden drouth and arid tive ar areas as is tremendous that it requires miss missionary missionary mis mis- s onay work and exper experimentation n cannot pos pos- y ge well started within a year or so Roosevelt on the other hand m maintains that congress ss voted the money with the intention that it be spent within a brief interval and that T for rural rehabilitation must be speeded bt 1935 United by-United uri lea Inc I |
