Show GEt E ALt Al HUGH S. S t N SON SONi J JJr i d I I Sn e AMATEUR AMBASSADORS So the Germans say that Bill Bul- Bul Bullitt Bullitt litt said that if war should break out we wouldn't take part in the begin begin- beginning beginning beginning ning but will in the finish So what Mr Bullitt wasn't ambassador dor to Poland and he wasn't speak speak- speaking speaking speaking ing as ambassador to o France Franc or in any responsible official capacity He was just shooting off his face Ev Ev- Everybody Everybody Everybody who knows him knows he heis heis heis is strongly pro-ally pro and militant top to too which is more important than this incident The notable thing is not Bill Bills Bill's s al alleged al- al alleged alleged sound-off sound but but the resulting result g Washington commotion about it Why should it instantly be bally- bally ballyhooed ballyhooed ballyhooed as a German attempt to horn into our presidential election If it was it was a sickly sic ly try If true tru it would only show that the President PresIdent President dent likes to pick amateurs for am am- ambassadors ambassadors ambassadors with a strange preference for plutocratic playboys But it didn't need any German I white book to tell us all that It is isone isone isone one of the outstanding facts in in all New Deal history Joe Davies Davics aft aft- after after after er a career conspicuous for its un unfailing un- un unfailing failing inanity married General Foods and so became a top-hole top AMBASSADOR BULLITT rile BULLITT He teas just shooting off of his face diplomat so tactful and suave that he went to his first post the prole prole- proletariat proletariat proletariat government of Soviet Russia convoyed by a luxury yacht as big bigas as an ocean liner loaded to the gun gun- gunwales gunwales gunwales wales with General Foods grocer grocer- ies He bounced from there to Brus Brus- Brussels Brussels Brussels sels and then back home as adviser on diplomacy and European affairs and the kept fat cat of the New Deal party Tony Biddle is another marrying fool like fool like a fox He also swore to love honor and cherish a vast fe female fe- fe female female male fortune and so qualified as ambassador to Poland He didn't stay long When the German army came he forgot his stranded na na- nationals na- na nationals decided that Hitler had de de- declared declared de- de dared war on his Warsaw country estate and got the hell out of his post of duty with an account of his hasty retreat that sounded like Eliza crossing the ice or General Put Put- Putnam's Putnam's Putnam's nam's escape from the Hessians by riding down Breakneck Hill Then there is Jimmy Cromwell who married not one but two of our foremost unearned increments and after making an ass of himself in all respects save matrimony all up and down the Eastern Seaboard be be- became became became came minister to Canada and did it there also There is but is-but but what's the use It Itis Itis Itis is all stale Bill Bullitt has a little less dough and a little more sense but he is not exactly qualified to steer us away from war as ambas ambas- ambassador ambassador ambassador to his beloved France THE GANG BUSTERS This column is no pre-convention pre booster of the candidacy of Mr 1 r. r Dewey His bid rests largely on his reputation as a brilliant crimi crimi- criminal criminal nal prosecutor To that all hail He did a swell job in New York cleaning up the judi judi- judiciary judiciary ciary and the office of public prose prose- Neither do I carry any torch for Mr Roosevelt's third term can can- Yet I believe that the smash against the backwash of filth and corruption of the prohibition era was sparked by the President him him- self Certainly the ending of the era was his alone He laid the job out in his 1932 campaign He promised to clear the mess Whether under Attorney Gen Gen- General General General eral Cummings Murphy or Jack Jack- Jackson Jackson son there has been no let I hate late some of the methods Of the result there can be no question question- is almost out gangster gangster- ism is on the run judicial peculation peculation peculation tion and low ethics at the bar have become too dangerous to practice practice- much I 1 give the New Deal credit for this notwithstanding that I could name a few places that have been soft In general the at at- atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere has been greatly cleared I doubt whether without v this presidential presidential presidential trail blazing and fog clear ing even Mr Dewey could have done what he did However that may be there is splendid credit enough for all and there is no occasion to balance mer mer- its But as a lawyer I dont don't be be- believe believe believe lieve that the mental attitude of A l public prosecutors is a proper one for Presidents |