The Archive · 1929

Diplomatic Embarrassment

Tt has long Doon recognized in Washington that it is an embarrass ing duty for the British Ambassador to visit the U. S. State Department in behalf of a rumevunner agetinst which some technical violation of international law has been commit fed, when it was well known that the skip was endeavouring to thwart the laws of the United States. In this particular instance it may proved evend question that the Tm Mone was at fault, and was guilty fon of the lutey, but shat dows the less odious, the time of writing that the only, hope of a perfectly amicable xettles ment of the depend sulaly upon whether it is proved jive yond doubt that the schooner designs upon the laws of a frieudiy-Government.

'AIL. the the incident ig bound tu ea deal of ind tion throughout this and other tries, Just at the time when Pes Hoover and the Prohibition Commissioner are about to tawich, the most vitally important. inquiry Ina generation in this country. "the Prohibition survey, That mothing urgently ix requited can he seen from the front pays of every American newspaper, for daily they are filled with evidence ized crime, the Ranies ving, the banditry and horrors tracyable directly: ts Proe Obligations and Rights today, through a Tuiventiraey', i shouldering mere wi mere the obligations and rights of the Am sale which, should he properly asswined through, [state andi loca governme daya oF the Witson adm this has beg the tine hax come rea sense the fact in Washinge ton, when the proletariat ix being. exhorted, ike Bh of el "uke up" and re-assume the power the Constitution gives to hold the being of G it xo that their. dominer further become a mi we themrelver anal the lanughings stock amenye other Less profented wovratic nations. Ong Feels in the states one belie coercion oF favour to surrender their own Important arises. the people have come to lieve that "Wervhington will cee (0 some misaetlavs manner thats but not political w is the fault "due to their lethargy nal scramble to des than take an interest rights they enjoy under the Cone stitution, He suggests that highest service Mr. Hoover for his country during his aduinise seasion fs to refrain from beings what he calls a "world fixer." and to eat with fearless eundour this complex question of increasing: cod Sangerous centralization of political sie"tysten of Europe. ing quite ae ie new cines weep the ate ste, therefore eeendmie power Sed political power but'a

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