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NOTES OF THE DAY
A NEW PHASE
Anyone who has studied the American reaction to the Roosevelt
"BILL" BULLITT
MYSTERY
MAN OF
AMERICAN
DIPLOMACY: AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA So Mr. Lloyd George utterly re-
FR. William Bullitt, now Amer!- M can Ambassador to Russia, is pudlated Bullitt, saying he "know American nothing of a journey some boys
The Very Idea!
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
By Eddie "Alibi" "Kelly
TALK about calling a | recovery programme cannot have
spade a spade. If we failed to notice that the United States has recently passed from
start using that language we to should soon be had up for the first phase of this experiment the mystery man of
were reported to have made into the second. The first phase | diplomacy.
Just as President Wilson and Russia." Pres. Wilson refused to libel. was the era of unanimous public
approval. Few understood exact Colonol' House dispatched him on sea Steffens when he appealed on. There's some people you
CRITICISM CERTAIN
a secret mission to Russin nearly Mr. Bullitt's behalf. 16 years ago to negotiate with the
way
friends, the Chinese, have got the system worked out to per- fection but we think we aren't
to think a minute and we know
Ifenry we've got her name pat but which girl it is. If she asks for if she asks for Ed. Kelly we're out without a doubt.
ly what was going on, but could
The Bullitt proposals, including just can't call by their right sce that some definite action was being taken, and liked the iden. Soviet government, so President recognition of the Soviet govern-name-they'd be offended There were no dissenting votes. Roosevelt employed Mr. Bullitt in ment, went into the waste paper and passers-by would be of-
accrot preliminaries to the basket. Everything that was done drew the
Bullitt, in bitterness, resigned fended. round of cheers. Now things are public exchanges of notes with Mr.
from the American commission, na What we're getting at is different. Criticism has begun Kalinin.
On the surface, Pres. Roosevelt did several other younger members, this matter of alibis. Our and is getting stronger daily. The various acts of the recovery pro-merely sent Kalinin a nice letter when the final terms of the Ver gramme are being submitted to and Kalinin replied. In kind, agree-anllles Treaty came out. He public. toly denounced the Polish Corridor to aend M. Litvinoff searching analysis, and those who ing
and reparations provisions which believe they see defects are not ashington for conversations.
But things never happen that havo, Incidentally, caused trouble so bad ourself,' slow in calling attention to them.
in International diplomacy. ever since.
When a girl rings up the office Said he: "I am going to the Band asks for Jack wo've only got First, you sound out the other fellow confidentially to arrange the vlern, lle on the sand, kick my official exchange. Roosevelt sent an heels in the air, and let the world It would be a mistake to assume emissary to Boris E. Skvirsky, go to hell." So he did, and it did. that this criticism procceds solely Russia's representative in Washing- [ But by September Bullitt was back In Washington, making a from those who have private axes ton. to grind. There is some sniping
Official-confirmation conspicuous-full report to the Senate Foreign going on, of course; yet that in ly is lacking, but the emissary is Relations Committee on his trip to itself is not enough to explain the almost certain to have been Mr. Russia and his observations on the if a bill comce Stubbs Rd.
making and terms of the peace change in the public's attitude. William C. Bullitt, Special Assist- Evidently the Amerlenns simply ant to the Secretary of State.
He is a tall, solidly-built, bald, treaty.
twice have come to the end of the period zestful individunt of 42, in which their one wish is to see married and twice divorced,
He used to be a newspaperman. "action; and action now.". It was
And thus it was, Wilson's own STRELLETT AL the Victoria Hes-impossible to go on cheering for He comes from Rittenhouse Square
that the ad-in Philadelphia, and made Phi Beta man, Bullitt, who furnished a good and part of the ammunition which the The Peak, on Saturday, pital,
senators-a "little November 25, to Mr. and Mtsever over, the fact
ministration had recovered from an Kappa at Yale. He wrote
talked cleverly, and went on the Republican D. L. Strellott, a daughter.
attack of paralysis. The time had stuff of a Philadelphia newspaper. group of willful men"-used in calls out "Here you→→fool!" we was one of the voyagers on shooting full of holes both the make him repeat it three times to come for the bringing of critical He
Fence treaty and the League of before we move. What makes him Henry Ford's Peace Ship in 1915. faculties to life.
Then he married Ernests Drink- Nation er, a collego president's daughter, and spent an odd honeymoon behind the Russian and French fronts with German troops. When. America entered the war, he was made an aide to the State Department as an expert on Central European affairs When President Wilson sailed for Paris on the George Washington to help make the peace that was to create a new world, Bullitt went along as a member of the American Peace Commission,
BIRTHS.
The
Hongkong Eelegraph.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1933.
LANCASHIRE AND
Simja
measures.
JAPAN
GOOD FOR ROOSEVELT
ns a
SECRET MISSION SENT TO SOUND RUSSIANS,
went on to Moscow.
HELPS WILSON'S FOES TO COMBAT LEAGUE.
Bullit was divorced, and married Ann Moen Louise Bryant Recd, widow of Harvard Jack Reed, who went to Russia for American radi- cal papers to write the revolution and remained to join it and be buried with honour by the Bolshe viki in the Kremlin wail.
rope.
Russia.
to Moscow.
On the same principle we know in signed by "Ed Kelly" we only have to go round the small circle of people who know our identity to find out who perpetrated the fraud.
Of course there are some names we don't answer to in any cir- the Editor cumstances. When
we say "Are you mad la when referring to us?" in a sort of superior tone that makes him feul he may be mistaken after ali.
We had a reader come in. the other day who had followed one
Ho wan
The fellow looks at him sus- piciously and says, "Oh yeah????" in a nasty way.
"Sticks," says, the other and
When the explanations had taken place the Intruder asked straight out for "Surething."
When we signed our contract This is bound to be a good thing for the Roosevelt administration.
and went down the line we really thought that what the papers said No government can alve its best it there is a complete and con-
They were divorced in 1930. was true. Wo expected to meet tinued absence of criticism. If its every act is hulled as a master-
Bullitt has spent the last 10 years lots of the coves whose names filt piece of wisdom, it sooner or later
rattling around Europe, renewing up the various pages. But did The British Government's at will become like an engine without
contacts there, writing a satiric we? Did we, hecki the best
novel, "It Isn't Done," and catab lishing a home at Ashfield, Mass. titude in regard to alleged a flywheel. Perhaps
He knew Franklin D. Roosevelt Japanese dumping, that it is thing that could have happened to
the racovery programme
during the war, and came out in of the racing forecasts and and better that an agreement be whale is the fact that people now
During the making of the peace, his support during the last cam-paid for his experience. reached between the industrial-are ready to speak their minds the moment they seo a flaw in it.
of his pocket money and wanted ists of the two countries than The gold policy is so full of holes Wilson and Lloyd George hoped to, palgn, working for the New York one and half month's salary ahead
is bound to be include some understanding with headquarters of the Democratic
to tell "Surething" a tuw more. that it should be attempted by that criticism
One after Russia. But, as the Allies weren't National Committee.
Well, he goes up to the horsist official intervention, will com-concentrated upon it.
another, lenders are assaulting it, speaking to the new Russian gov
looking individual in the office and mand fairly widespread ap and using effective
weapons.ernment at the time, It seemed SUSPICIONS AROUSED ahead a secret BY EUROPEAN TOUR.
Buys "Look here, my man, do you as a necessary to send proval. Suggestions of retalia- Already there has arisen
Last January, Bullitt bobbed up. again in Europe, and the U. s. know anything about racing?" |tory-action-by rescission-of-the direct result talk of carly atablli- and unofficial mission to sound out
sation of the dollar. If it comes Lenin,- commercial treaties
The idea apparently was that, Senato rang with cries that he was "Oh no1.5ir, says tno individual between off, it will afford convincing proof Britain and Japan are not help of the value of America's changed armed with a provisional arrange representing President-Elect Roo- in a kind of bign voice, "I isok
ment, Wilson and Lloyd Georgesevelt and spreading debt-cancella- niter the Lady's Page." ful. Such action would only ontlook.
could finesse France into agreeing. tion propaganda throughout Eu- Bullitt, Lincoln Steffens, and others tend to aggravate the situation
made up the unofficial mission.
What he probably was doing by raising antagonisms which
They made their way into Rus-
"Sure thing," says the individ- it were better to avoid. The BIG BAD WOLF
sia, something of a trick in those was finding out how European peace mission, countries liked their relations with
ual, blushing a little. conversations between
One of the pleasantest thinge days. A strange
The man with the grievance Roosevelt flatly denied that Bul- Japan and India have apparently about the world to-day is the fact with Bullitt, Lynch, and a guide when named Kil. Arriving in the dark, been satisfactory, and there is that at a time like this,
Bullitt to the office and he goes up and no reason why some sort of history is being made by whole- deserted streets of Petrograd, they litt was in any way representing waits till another fellow comes in-
swore he was just travelling | asks him his name. sale and signs and portents are understanding cannot be reached crossing the sky so fast that they met Tchicherin and Litvinoff and the president-elect, and
another's heels, it There Bullitt tactfully steered around, meeting old friends, and as between the industralists of tread on one
can devote itself whole-heartedly his way to a tentative agreement writing a book on diplomacy, Lancashire and Japan. At any
to a lilting litle song about a big rate, the attempt is well worth bad wolf. The song itself, Is of with Lenin, and the mission return- which he should be well qualified just manages to avoid the blow.
But on his return, Bulilit was the French, meanwhile, had wind of making. If it falls, the position the simplest. It points no moral, ed in serious mood to Paris. But to do. can be reconsidered afresh. It and, if it adorns a tale, the tale the mission, and wore very sore, given à post at the State Depart
Is nothing but a moving picture will be time then to talk of other version of an old nursery fable. Leoling that things were being donement, and is now U.S. Ambassador
Whilst there cannot But somehow everybody is going behind their back. be any question of the serious for it. whistling it, humming it, grinning fondly over the memory ness of Japanese competition of a couple of pink porkers dan has cing across a coloured celluloid with British products, it been stated that the greater landscape. There is, in fact, only one disturbing thought in con- bulk of Japan's export trade is nexion with it; the thought that conducted on a profitable basis.resently the highbrow critics will "discover" It, and will write If this is so, then the term erudite articles for the reviews "dumping" would seem to call telling about the "significanco" of for revision. One of the chief than cartoon comedies, discussing
their artistle value, and using factors in Japan's successful in- lot of four-syllable words to say vasion of overseas markets is un. what the ordinary picture-goor doubtedly her low cost of labour, already knows that these things are a lot of fun, and clever as the Tariffs cannot wholly overcome
dickens. the disparity in prices, so that, short of an absolute embargo, which is most inadvisable manufacturing and the selling from many standpoints, it is of the finished products, aro all dimcult to see what can be done parts of an organised Industry. except by some sort of mutual The great need is, for some agreement between the interests contral authority which will affected. So far as Lancashire control the general policy of the la concerned, the troubles of the trade-adjusting its internal cotton Industry are not entirely relations and organising its ro due to Japanese competition. sources for more efficient pro Though it is highly localised, it duction and marketing. The is probably true to say that prosent difficulties make
and there is no trade in England organisation imperative. which is so divided into sections urgent. Wiso steps in this di- as the Lancashire textile in-rection, coupled with a willing- dustry, and there is none in ness to enter into friendly which there is more duplication, conversations with Japan's in- overlapping and waste. Cotton,dustrialists, should go at least like other industries, must re-part of the way. In bringing gard itself as a unit. The buy-about a moro satisfactory state ing of raw cotton, spinning, of affairs.
re
Oh, Jenkins, I'm afraid you'll have to make another trip.
We forgot the sweet pickles."
It was only after he had inter- vlowed "Per-gaugo," been snapped at by "Ace" and had been told that' "The Spectator" was out and that "Veritas" had "Pilgrim" and absconded that he gave in..
As he was going out some help- ful chap met him at the doorway and asked him if he wanted to see anybody. "Neriz!" says the man with a grievance, and makes to get away.
"Wait a minute, perhaps I can help you," says the helpful one. "I write the agricultural notes."
The chap was so upset that he fell down the steps and had to be helped out by "Leg-break."
When his groans had died away in the distance, the Editor crawled out from under his desk.
a frosh "I shall have to get name, now," he grumbled,
MISTAKES
When a garage man makes a mistako, he adds it to your bill
When a carpenter makes a mis take, it's just what he expected.
When a preacher makes a mis take, no one knows the difference. When a lawyer makos a mistake, It was just what ho wanted, because he has a chance to try the case all over again.
When a judge makes a mistako, It becomes the law of the Innd,
When a doctor makes a mistake, ho burles it,
But when an editor makes a 'mis- take-GOOD NIGHTW -Literary Digest