INTERNATIONAL: Educational Is the Word

(4 of 4)

Educational. No shrewd observer last week expected anything very definite to come from Premier van Zeeland's return to Princeton. They did not believe that he had anything so concrete as even a trade agreement to offer Mr. Roosevelt. They did believe that the trip was an exploratory gesture by the Roosevelt Administration and the Oslo group looking toward more definite action, some day. They believed that from his wholehearted admiration for President Roosevelt and the U. S. and his shrewd knowledge of European conditions. Premier van Zeeland was the best man on the Continent to make the trip.

Last week a diplomatic oracle implicitly trusted by all newshawks, was interviewed on the subject of the van Zeeland trip. From him came but one cryptic sentence:

"Confidentially Mr. van Zeeland's visit to Princeton is just educational. Yes, that's the very word, 'educational.' "