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Show WHO'S NEWS This Week By Lemuel F. Parton Consolidated Features.-WNU Kelease. NEW YORK.-It used to be that a government nailed down everything ev-erything loose when diplomats from friendly states came visiting, That ii was when Offers India Well- diplomats Filled Crockery in practiced International Bingo pocket politics poli-tics of Machiavelli and Richelieu. American diplomats of today are contrariwise. Nobody nails down anything against them, because they aren't taking. Not anything. They're running a sort of international bingo carnival, and the stuff they hand out adds up to more than a set of dishes. Thus William C. Phillips, one of President Roosevelt's handymen, handy-men, sits down in New Delhi to figure out how much food India needs, and how we can give it in a lend-lease deal. Of course he hopes to persuade India to shinny on the Allied side for the duration; but considering the well-filled crockery he is willing to hand out that isn't much. Mr. Phillips comes from Italy where he did not coax Mussolini to side with us. But even if he failed he had, on leaving, the satisfaction of knowing that for Mussolini the Axis had turned into a picket stake on the shirp end of which he was sitting far from pretty. India Is virgin soil for Mr. Phillips but the kind of dickering he will do is not new to him. He has been matching wits with foreign office horse-traders all . over Europe for nearly 40 years. In 1903 with a fresh law degree from Harvard, he became private pri-vate secretary at London to colorful col-orful Ambassador Joseph M. Choate. Not long ago he got to be undersecretary under-secretary of state, but a desk job of even such grandeur cramped the style of so accurate a trouble shooter so he packed his bags and went abroad again. A thinnish, horse-faced man and patient with photographers he knows everybody who is anybody in Europe, including Laval, Galeazzo Ciano and Von Ribbentrop. He has a wife, five children and four honorary degrees. India, patting pat-ting a full stomach, shortly should be urging another of these last for him. ABOUT now, and if not now then in a little while, Hitler ought to be ready to admit that he took a gander in the wrong direction. It . , was west- Shows Nazis Lofty ward tnat Defiance of a Stag he looked, Among the Wolves and aU he saw was Great Britain and her vast empire and all he thought was, "That's what I'll go for." If he had' looked north he could have seen Denmark and Norway and Sweden going their war-less war-less happy middle ways. If he had said, "I'll copy them," his Germany might have bought prosperity with the billions he blew in on today's shattered war machine. The noble Catholic bishop of Berlin, Most Rev. Konrad Count von Freysing would have praised that prosperity as thoroughly as he now condemns all that Hitler does. "This terrible creed" he calls the Nazi philosophy in a pastoral letter even bolder than those of his predecessor, the late Nicholas Bares. Sixty-two now, Bishop Preysing spent almost half his life outside the church, but under Hitler's oppression he has become one of its prime defenders. de-fenders. He was born in Bavaria. That pastoral state had just joined the new German empire but it had kept its king and separate government govern-ment and after Von Preysing studied law his title helped him into, the ministry of foreign affairs. He was 32 before he entered the priesthooa. DOP a paper bag behind any hundred hun-dred statesmen and when they jump blue prints for a post-war world will bounce out of 99 pockets. He'll Swap Second ?iv, hundredth a t ront for Better brace and Housing Any Day bit and he U bore you a peep-hole into his own dream civilization civili-zation before you can say Shangri-la. The pet future world of Walter .-Nash, .-Nash, minister to the United States from New Zealand, is more reasonable than most. It is, in fact, reasonable enough for almost anyone. He leaves extravagant ex-travagant fancies to others and will settle for better homes and more of them. There is, he believes, be-lieves, no other project which would yield richer rewards in terms of social welfare. Mr, Nash has been talking housing for years as he should, coming from New Zealand where housing reform paces the world. And he harps constantly con-stantly on the need for this in any program of post-war rehabilitation The fact is, he has said he is in no hurry f a seCQnd o often sa.d we ought to get more sup-Pl sup-Pl es into Russia. Supplies enough 2!u?rTr,cK come to Nash it m ' " his youth' Mr-Nash Mr-Nash at 60 is a plump but not fit socia reformer who is' reputed on tan l i membCrS f New Zea! lands labor government. His short hair is parted nririiv enough on the right. Oddly, bectS t ox"rbr 3t 1?aSt a w-ny-bn pom s H'eVeHr,SinCe he into pontics. He is odd, too, in his att |