Show I-i I I N S I D E S STUFF T I U F F The By News PAUL Behind MALLON the News I I W WASHINGTON A A French lecturer lec who plays dummy for the ventriloquists in the French foreign for for- eign office informed The he world from here the other day that S there would be be- war war in Europe within the year It caused nary a a. ripple of or in interest in In- Interest terest or comment comments probably be because because be be- cause everyone realizes the French t foreign reign office is now in about the same state of mind as Republican headquarters arters on the thed day d y after election French diplomats diplo mats have their job durIng during dur dur- ing the past year They should have played closer to Mussolini th than n to Russia Spanish developments develop develop- ments have gone against them The are losing Belgium They are in a bad spot S But while some lome new crises are Jn inthe the offing in Europe no one here really expects expects' hostilities to break from the current course of or events within a year year-or two years Guarantees Official and unofficial author authorities ties tie here have the war situation pegged this way at present Any Mw nation before coins coins' to war will ask itS itself U tw two questions Can we win What can we win I Just now there seems to be no nation and no combination of nations na na- na which can answer either of these questions with any real en en- In addition every nation has just jus weathered red a depression andis and andis is entering upon a period of economic economic eco eco eco- improvement Their debts d finances and cu currencies are all ill sad shape The United States is probably better fitted financially for war than any other nation We have most of or the gold of or the world But every economist within the new deal agrees war would ruin us They know and frankly say It is unthinkable You can get the idea by imagining ing lug President Roosevelt's pre pre- in financing a war on r top of the debt he has already accumulated in the war against the depression These considerations might be sidetracked by sudden events in inthe the current realignment of or Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope on a basis of fascism v versus communism but the best authorities authorities ties here do not believe it Tricks The Joe Davies appointment to the Moscow ambassadorship was strictly in payment of a political debt Presidential spokesmen say the president did not alone consider con con- sider aider the tho money donated by Davies Davies Da Da- vies in the last campaign but the help he lie gave also It seems he made a speech about two weeks before election stating the new deal was a pretty good thing Those who have read the speech believe bellevo the presidential spokesmen spokesmen spokes spokes- men are spoofing It must have been the money Behind the appointment also were implications which Moscow will not miss The president first sent the Reds a sympathetic and energetic emissary Bill Bullitt hoping that the debt would be settled 0 and e a commercial relation relation- snip which would be ae beneficial to both countries Bullitt Bullitt Bul Bul- litt encountered diplomatic duplicity duplicity du du- du b became e c a am in e discouraged turned and was transferred transferred trans trans- erred to Paris Now Mr Mt Roosevelt is going to let the Reds work on a skilled lobbyist and a hard hard boiled boiled lawyer whose wife has more capital than most capitalists that is let them work on him him and and vice versa More Less Ambassador or Davies got started beautifully by saying in his first press conference that he was al always al aI- ways more or less a student of or communism that he lie had bad read a alot alot alot lot about it and was more or orless orless orless less well grounded in its rudi rudi- ments meats Y Afterward the t h 0 Washington representative of the official soviet government news agency that Is the only kind of news they have in Russia official government gov gay e news walked up to Mr Davies and said Im the representative of or th the agency Davies looked blank and asked ked The what The name of ot the agency was ws re repeated repeated re- re by its representative whereupon Mr Davies confessed he had never heard of it The conclusion was thereupon established that when the ambassador ambassador am am- said he was more emore or orless orless orless less a student of communism he intended to put the emphasis onless on onless onless less Complacency Lack of inquisitiveness on the part of the supreme court is causing causing caus caus- ing some apprehension among lawyers During recent arguments ments the justices have asked very few questions of the arguing ing attorneys Last year they asked very pointed qu questions which hinted in some d degree gree how bow the c cases ses might be e decided The complacency ot of the court courtis is somewhat discouraging to the lawyers lawyers- Their arguments e ts have been cut short They suspect the justices want to avoid the situation situation situation situa situa- tion of last year when they made the front page headlines almost daily with their significant in in In- Incidentally in many ways the court is dispensing with formality Chief Justice Hughes does not follow the historic procedure of reading all the certioraris grant grant- ed He merely announces these have been filed with the clerk Formerly each new entrant at atthe atthe atthe the bar was introduced separately but now one attorney may in introduce introduce in in- several at once It speeds up procedure Copyright 1936 for The Telegram |