Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1936, Page 11

British Crisis May Affect U. S. Policy Government Watching Developments in England Closely. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. LTHOUGH it is naturslly in- delicate for anybody in gov- ernmental quarters here to discuss the dilemma that faces the British government as a conse- quence of King Edward's proposed marriage, there can be no doubt that officials are keenly alert to the possible ef- fects of any change in the status of the British Empire and especially in the relations of the mother coun- the next - door neighbor of the United. States and with Aus- tralian interests in the Pacific an integral factor in the many problems that arise between Britain and Japaen, on the one hand, and the United States and Japan on the other, it may well be said that our foreign policy as a whole may be af- fected if the British dominions be- come less a part of the British Em- pire than before. Thus, the matter of the King’s in- tended marriage has in itself less sig- nificance than the flames of contro- versy that the episode has kindled. Nor is it belleved here that even the abdication of the King necessarily would end the matter of after effects. The impression that the King's ex- pressed desire to marry Mrs. Simpson has given domestic factions in Eng- land an opportunity to emphasize their points of view in what has the earmarks of a class cleavage not un- like that which has been developing in America is on every side discussed, particularly as London reports refer constantly to the attitude of the Brit- ish public and especially labor groups. Crown Symbolizes Ties. In recent years, the ties between the British dominions and the gov- ernment at London have been sym- bolized by the crown. It has been the single bond of unity in otherwise in- dependent commonwealths. Should there be a pronounced change in the attitude of the British Parliament as # result of popular feeling in Great Britain, there is always the prospect that, if opposite opinions are held in the dominions, the empire’s unity will suffer. From a purely selfish standpoint, i that term can be used in reference to the evolution of the foreign policy of the United States in present-day diplomacy, a strong British Empire is considered here a vital benefit to America. Whatever may be the en- tanglements of European or conti- nental politics, and the United States is less concerned with those matters today than at any time since the war, it 18 nevertheless true that the British Navy is a valuable force in the main- tenance of world peace and British ©o-operation is an essential to Ameri- can foreign policy in the Far East. Anything, therefore, which tends %0 break down the collective strength of the British Empire becomes a matter of more than academic con- oern for the United States, recogniz- ing, indeed, that concretely, of course, these questions are wholly for the decision of the British government and their own commonwealth. Crisis Having Repercussions. Broadly speaking, a crisis in British affairs plainly is having its repercus- sions here. Nobody is offering the British any advice as to how they may settle it, and there is no especial con- sideration given to the fact that some Britishers, for political purposes, have tried to make it appear that the ob- Jections in Parliament are to the mar- rying of an American. The merits of the controversy are well understood here to be not in any way related to the nationslity of the King's bride- to-be, but to the question of whether the King should make his queen a person who has been twice married. Divorce has never been a matter of much public discussion hereabouts, though it has been well supposed that American Ambassadors who have wives that have been divorced are not sent, as a rule, to the Court of St. James, more as a courtesy to the British than because the American Government itself takes official cog- David Lawrence. News Behind the News Peace Talk Partly Camouflages Trade Dickering Among the Americas. BY PAUL MALLON. HE beautiful peace phrases wafting up from is trade, as much as peace. This applies to Latin American nations. You will find the key to the conference in the fact tary Hull is not only No. 1 peace maker, but our No. 1 tariff maker as well. He is a peace bargainer in name but a trade bargainer in practice. Mr. Hull really is not depending as heavily as he indicated on those points submitted at the start of the conference. From a practical standpoint they would not amount to much. They were intended only .. to lay academic groundwork. What Hull wants to get is: ! (1) A revitalized interest in international agreements and (2) a unified neuirality understanding. If he can get Argentina, Brazil and Chile in on this program, they will frighten the smaller powers into it. But what all the Latins want is more American markets for their products. The dealing, therefore, is likely to be complicated. ‘The way the conference has started out has encouraged the belief here that something real may come of it, although it will not be as simple as the opening speakers sounded. Note—As an example of the difference between diplomacy and realism: President Roosevelt based his opening speech on the theme that the attend- ing nations are all brothers in free democratic government, whereas the truth is only two of them have simon-pure democracies, The others use & strong arm, more or less in the traditional manner of the European dic- tators whom Mr. Roosevelt denounced. That's diplomacy. * ok x % » Masters of statecraft here have been looking forward to the abdication of Dave Windsor as & matter of little immediate international concern. Mr. Windsor is said to have been inspirational in developing only two British policies. He liked the Germans and sought to swing London closer to Berlin. At his first public reception he startled diplomats by shaking the hand of the German representative first. The only other issue he seemed to bother much about was strengthening of the British Air Force. The Duke of York would merely be a regal corner-stone layer, but a good one. He is not interested in two subjects, they say. He would dbe a dependable but inarticulate symbol of government, how= ever, and capable of inspiring respect. One or two far-sighted diplomatists look upon the situation with deep misgivings. As they see it, there are only two major governments in the world now ruling securely by force of respect and merit, rather than bayonets. These two are Britain and the United States. The current crisis did nothing to increase respect for British royalty. In fact, it may have hastened the day when the British royal order will follow the way of all modern Kings. Note—George Bernard Shaw says the prospective Mrs, Windsor would make an excellent wife, because she has had the experience of two previous marriages. Under the Shavian rating system, Peggy Hopkins Joyce would be logical choice. i * ¥ k% The Philippine defense is tearing the Army and Navy apart. The cleavage runs right up to the top of the general staff and the Navy board. It has spread fast since the German-Japanese agreement ‘was announced. The Navy hankers to build a de- fense line at the Philippine term- inus of our commercial trans- Pacific airway. The Army says it is foolish. Strongest advocate of the Army viewpoint is Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Embick, who placed the guns of the Philippine defenses. ‘The arguments used by both sides are vital and interesting. The Army says that, if the Navy will withdraw to the Aleutian, Hawaii and Panama Canal Zone line, the United States is impregnable. Further development of the Philippines would merely stick Uncle Sam’s neck out into Pacific dangers, they argue. ‘They suspect the $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 floating drydock planned by the Navy for Pearl Harbor, Hawali, is really intended to aid the Philip- pines. ‘The Navy has the idea it should protect American trade routes to the East in the old British Empire manner. The admirals assert they could defend the islands if given enough patrol boats, bombers, etc. The State Department is holding its head in its hands. It does not know what to think. Many a technician outside the argument will be inclined to side with the Army. The possibility of successful Philippine defense became doubtful with the development of the submarine. Recent developments in airplanes have made it more doubdtful, and also ‘more dangerous. Mr. Roosevelt probably will solve the difficulty eventually by calling an international conference to negotiate the neutrality of the Philippines, but not very soon. (Copyright, 1936.) TUESDAY, DECEMBER- 8, - 1936 'HE opinions of the writers on this page are Thelr own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s eflort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly oppoged to The Star’s. Personal Government Rises England’s Traditional Form Hangs in Balance in Romance. BY MARK SULLIVAN. F ALL the events that maké this fantastic and unguess- able world, none is more charged with unfathomable possibilities, than this romance now shaking the British Empire. Consider it in relation to the forces already at work in the world, and in the light history of as far back as History goes. Once Kings were om- nipotent; they did what they pleased, about themselves, their subjects and | their countries. Starting several centuries ago, the British people be- gan to strip their Kings of power. ‘They set up a Parliament repre- senting the peo- ple. First, the King must consult this Parliament; later he must obey it. The King be- came a sheer figurehead. Some few weeks ago, apparently, the King asked the heads of Parliament, the prime minister and cabinet, to pass legislation enabling him to marry in such a way that his spouse should be his wife, but not the Queen of the British Empire. The heads of Par- liament refused. From thiy point there are various possible courses, each carrying definite implications about the future of government, not only in Britain but everywhere. Big Forces at Play. Government everywhere, the whole | organization of society, is in flux, with | contradictory forces in conflict with each other. One group of force or the other will be given additional momentum by whatever now happens about the British government. If the King yields to the heads of Parlia- | ment, whether by giving up the lady or | giving up the crown, that would be a strengthening of two forces. Bizarrely, the two forces that would be increased | are partly in contradiction of each other. Yielding by the King would increase the prestige of Parliament, and of the parliamentary conception of government everywhere. At the same time, yielding by the King would be a deference to conservative tradi- tions, among others, the tradition | and rule of some churches, which | frowns upon the remarriage of a di-| vorced person, and even upon divorce itself. Might Change Government. But suppose the King refuses to de- fer to the heads of Parliament. Sup- pose he refuses to accept the lady's | willingness to give him up. Suppose | he says to Parliament, in effect, “Since you won't pass legislation enabling me to marry the woman of my choice | without making her Queen, then I'll| marry her anyhow, and I will continue as King and she shall be Queen.” If| the King should take that course and “get away with it,” if a majority of the | British people should stand by him, | then we should see a concrete change in the form of the British government, a definite change in its unwritten con- stitution. ‘The result would run contrary to the course of British government for Mark Sulll ish crown are, it may be said, far the seven centuries since Magna Charta. There would be an increase in the prestige and power of the King, & decrease in the prestige and power of Parliament. And if the King Should choose to follow up this first assertion of prerogative with other assertions, if he should happen to have the kiftd of personality that appeals to the people, then we should see in Britain a marked trend toward personal government as distinguished from parliamentary gov- ernment, a trend toward absolute monarchism. Personal Government On Rise. If this should happen in Britain it ‘would be new there; but it would be new nowhere else. All over the world, even in the United States, peoples are turning to prefer an increase of per- sonal government, increased central- ization of power in the individual head of state. In Italy, Germany and some other countries it goes the lerfgth of getting rid of Parliament altogether, transferring practically all power to the individual at the head of state. If such a trend should now develop in Britain, the only thing distinguishing it from the same trend in other coun- tries is the fact that the man exercis- ing personal government in Britain happens to be hereditary monarch. If the King possesses the traits of personality that brought forward Mus- solini in Italy and R tler in Germany, he would not only bring personal government to Britain. He would bring increase of prestige, a new lease of life, to the one feature of government that we all thought was surely dying every- where, the institution of dynastic monarchy. It's a strange world, my masters. No matter what the outcome of this royal romance, what has already hap- pened has greatly weakened old stand- ards and old codes in every area of life. All kinds of authority, formal and informal, have been weakened. The authority of the British-estab- lished church has been weakened with respect to divorce With that goes weakening of the authority of churches in other respects. And with weakening of the authority of one church goes weakening of others. The authority of custom, of tradition, of accepted wi of life, even of indi- vidual standards of conduct—all are modified. Mrs. Simpeon Imitated. In New York last week I noticed that the hat girl at the restaurant had arranged her hair and eyebrows and lips and dress to look as near as she could to the latest-published photo- graph of Mrs. Simpson. Having ob- served the hat girl I looked at girls in the dining rooms and offices. The Mrs. | Simpson model is spreading. In this there is nothing new. Young girls have long been taking Hollywood hero- ines as their models of dress and car- riage. The result has made any group of young women more attractive to the eye than were the dresses a gen- eration ago. But, looking back over centuries, one reflects that it is a far cry to the time when young women took Joan of Arc and the saints of the church as their ideals. (Copyright, 1936,) 300 AT GIFT SHOWER twenty-fifth anniversary of the Jewish Foster Home, was attended Sunday nizance of the controversy over the status of divorced persons. In American politics the question of divorces is sometimes brought up as an incident to local controversies over the personal side of candidates. Thus, the well-known objection of the Cath- olic Church to divorces is often men- tioned as an obstacle in the case of political candidacies. The peculiar relationship, however, which exists between the Church of England and the British government, something that is not duplicated in the United States, makes it difficult for the average American to under- stand the deep-seated nature of the British Parliament’s attitude on the subject. But there is no difficulty in perceiving the way the matter can become political through the appeals to the British working classes to sym- pathize with the King on the broad ground of his deflance of convention and tradition. 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Retailers were enabled to expand by two New Deal policies: Relief spending and the “prevailing wage” aystem, which pegged mass pur- chasing power. Work relief costs $1.70 for every dollar that a straight dole would cost, but that extra 70 cents has kept business alive. Step- ping up the rate of demand for consumers’ goods also helps the durable goods business. Therefore, argue the New Dealers, the case for 4 continuing W. P. A. is self-evident. = ¥ This is because W. P. A. wages are, in effect, the minimum wages in many parts of the country and stand as an unsurmountable barrier to a general degradation of wages scales, hours and conditions of labor in private industry. This side of the W. P. A. pro= gram s just beginning to work, as is shown by the piea of the United States Chamber of Commerce for the abolition of W. P. A. in order to let private industry “do the job.” Industry is beginning to need the labor on work re- lef, but it still wants that labor at sweat-shop wages. For example, there is a demand for button-hole makers in garment factories in the Cincinnati area. W.P. A, sewing rooms in the vicinity pay this class of labor a top of $35 a month in “security wages.” The factories, with longer hours and worse working conditions, offer only $7 or $8 a week. What standard of living can you maintain on $365 a year? In other words, the rugged individualists want to break the labor market in order to cut costs at the expense of the pay roll. The New Dealers claim that if W. P. A. labor is to be liquidated at all it must be done very carefully—so as not to depress prevailing wages—just as would be done in liquidating the assets of a bank or the cotton holdings of the A A. A. Somebody ought to tell these lads in the swivel chairs that Landon was not elected. The administration sees only one way in which this excess labor can be liquidated without knocking the bottom out of prevailing wages: By building up the “durable goods” industries, and, in particular, by a low-cost housing program on a very big scale. The rate of construction is much improved over the low point of the depression but it is still far from satisfactory. Private building contracts for 1936 stand at less than four billion dollars, as compared to seven billion dollars in 1927. Public and semi- public construction raises total building to seven billion dollars, as against a total of 11 billion dollars in 1927. In short, construction is at the low levels of 1931. This is in the face of an abso- lute shortage of 3,000,000 dwellings, as well as six or seven million more buildings which need renovation or replacement to render them fit for human habitation. This failure of the good old law of supply and demand to do its stuff is reflected in a dangerous increase of rents, which will soon bounce back at industry in a demand for higher wages or a decline of purchasing power. Low-cost housing—and lots of it—is our next move if we are to send the present boomlet over the 1929 top and make a real advance in living standards and general welfare. Otherwise, if we go into the Spring of 1937 with a break in the consumers’ market and no housing program, Mr. Roosevelt will be economically stymied at the outset of his second administration. How and where to start a low-cost housing program is another story, and not a very pleasant one. If the New Deal is to give it a happy ending, the administration will have to get in touch with little things like interest rates, industrial prices and the American Federation of Labor. Has the New Deal got the necessary nerve to break up the present love feast with big business by direct action in the housing fleld? 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Inasmuch as the Olyrapic meet has been held and § Germany will not again be eligible to stand as host over a span of multiplied olym- piads, there is nothing that Judge Mahoney, taking seat for a second term as president of the A. A. U, (victor over Maj. Patrick J. Walsh, pretender to the throne), can do about a dead situation. And yet that the issue itself is not entirely defunct was established when the embattled standard bearer of protest appointed Ernest Lee Jahncke of New Orleans among delegates at large to the A A. U. for 1937. Commodore Jahncke it was whose opposition to the holding of the games in Berlin was believed to have brought about his dismissal from the International Olympic Com« mittee. There will, it is said, be additiona) repercussions of the Olympic issue as well as the application of strong measures to various internal problems of amateur body. Born and reared in New York City —as was his rival for office, Maj Walsh—Judge Mahoney won athletic luster in his youth, gaining among lesser, but nonetheless important honors the national record for the high jump. A teacher in the metro- politan public school system, law parte ner of the now Senator Wagner, com~ missioner of accounts and a justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1923 to 1928—a Gov. Smith appointee —Judge Mahoney's career has been marked by achievement, sincerity and a ready willingness to do battle for things in which he believes, (Copyright, 1936,) Judge Mahoney, Glenn Martin Wins Award for Plane Designs. The United States Court of Claims yesterday allowed a claim against the | Federal Government of $38,571, by the | Glenn L. Martin Co., Baltimore air- craft manufacturing concern, for aire | plane designs prepared by the com- pany. | A decision read by Chief Justice ‘ Fenton W. 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