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Show - - - - x WHO'S WHOS WHO'Si ' : i WHO'SNEWS NEWS NEWSTHIS - NEWSTHISWEEK NEWSTHISWEEKBy WEEK THISWEEK THIS I . By LEMUEL F . PARTONNEW PARTON PARTONXJEW NEW XJEW YORKBack YORK-Back YORK Back YORK -Back Back - Back in the cham champagne champagne cham-L'1 cham L'1 L1 - ' pagne days when our Uncle UncleSam UncleSam UncleSam Sam was ' "Uncle Uncle 'Uncle " Shylock in Eng England England England land Sir Philip Kerr later latcr themarquess themarquess the themarquess marquess of o1 ofBrltrsh o1British ofBritish Brltrsh British Envoy Lothian did didIs didIs didIs Is Old FrIendnot Friend not share th s sOf sOf sOf Of Uncle Samdisesteem Sam disesteem Hesaid He Hesaid IsaId said repeated repeatedly ly that Abraham Lincoln Lmcoln was hIs hIspolItIcal hispolitical hispolitical polItIcal saint he risked ostracism ostracismat at his club by admitting admIttmg that Amer AmerIca America America Ica did a lot to help win the war warand warand warand and urged that England should at atleast atleast atleast least make a token payment on the theAmerIcan theAmerican theAmerican AmerIcan debtLord debtLord debt debtLord Lord Loth an arriving arrIvmg in Wash Washmgton Washington Washington mgton ington as British ambassador to thIs thIscountry thiscountry thiscountry country has traveled widely in ill th s scountry scountry scountry country has always taken home homegood homegood homegood good reports and as one onc of the themost themost themost most sk lied lled artisans of emp re rebuilding rebuilding rebuilding building and upkeep has urged un understandmg understandmg undcrstandmg derstandmg and co operat on be between between between tween the t vo nat ons ens for the well wellbemg wellbeing wellbeing bemg being of bothThe bothThe both bothThe The Brit sh empire he recently recentlysaId recentlysaid recentlysaid saId is America souter s outer ring rmg ofsecurIty ofsecurity of | security If it d sappears under underFascIst underFascist underFascist FascIst attack the United Umted States Statesand Statesand Statesand and its Monroe Doctrine Doctrme freedom freedomof freedomo1 of o1 the seas and so on would be bethreatened bethreatened bethreatened bethreatenedA threatened threatenedA A brilliant brllhant writer and speaker speakeraddressmg speakeraddressing speakeraddressing addressmg addressing cultural cnltural and foreign foreignpollcy foreignpolicy foreignpolicy pollcy policy groups groops in many nations nationsLord nationsLord nationsLord Lord Lothian has spoken and andwrItten andwritten andwritten wrItten unofficially his dlsserta disserta dlssertatlons dissertalions djssertations tlons lions reflecting reficctlDg ' closely empire empirepolIcy empirepolicy empirepolicy polIcy There probably is no nomore nomore nomore more scholarly and , gifted out outrider outrider outrider rider of oC o1 the British rntellectual mtellectual rntellectualdominIons mtellectualdominions intellectualdominions dominIons than this handsome handsomeO handsomeOxonian handsomeOxonian O Oxonian onlan trained tramed in m South AI At AIrIca Atnca Atnca rIca nca under the famous Lord 1\111 1 111 Mil 1111ner Milner Billner \ ner skilled not only in m the real realIStIC realistic realistic IStIC pratique of or empire bUIld bUIldmg building building- building buildingbut mg ing - but in its genteel hlstrIon histrion hlstrIonICS histrionics histnonics histnonicsLike ICSLIke ICS Like Simon Sunon Chamberia Chamberla n Hoare HoareHal HoareHal HoareHal Hal fax Astor Beaverbrook and andvIrtually andvirtually andvirtually vIrtually all the otters others of the BrIt BrItjsh Britfish Bntish jsh fish high command m in recent years yearshe yearshe yearshe he firmly refused to believe-unt believe unt believe-until until believeuntilMunichthat believe - untilMunich MunIch-that MunIch that - that AdoU Adolf H tier tler had any anybut anybut anybut but pacific and constructive mten inten mtentlOns intentions mtentions tlOns tions he shared the prevailing prevaIlmg con conservatIve conservative conservative servatIve view that German expan expanslOn expansion expansion slOn sion would be legitimately to ilie the ilieeast theeast theeast east and that the resurgent ReIch ReIchharbored Reichharbored Reichharbored harbored no designs against agamst the theBrItIsh theBritish theBritish BrItIsh em empire lre In 1935 he vIsIted vIsItedHerr visitedHerr visitedHerr Herr l Hitler tler and returned with warm warmreassurance warmreassurance warmreassurance reassurance to his countrymen He Hereported Hereported Hereported reported great achievements by the theNazIs theNazis theNazis NazIs and indicated mdlcated high esteem for fortheir fortheir fortheir their fuehrer-as fuehrer as fuehrer - as virtually all hIs hIspolItIcal hispolitical hispolitical polItIcal associates had doneHe doneHe done doneHe He shared the shock and bewll bewil bewllderment bewilderment bewilderment derment ol of bis hIs confreres in m the aft aftermath aftermath aftermath ermath of Munich Mumch He urged that thatno thatno thatno no further concessions be made to toGermany toGermany toGermany Germany and that the Hitler on onslaught onslaught onslaught slaught should be met with an 1m im 1mpregnable impregnable impregnable pregnable alliance against agamst him hun It Itwas Itwas Itwas was after Munich Muruch that he warned warnedAmerIca warnedAmerica warnedAmerica AmerIca against agamst the ills with which whichit It would be beset if Britain Brltam should shouldsuccumb shouldsuccumb shouldsuccumb succumb to a Fascist attackLOUIS attack . L Loms LOUIS oms ( LEPKE ) BUCHALTER BUCHALTERwho BUCHALTERwho - / who it seems after all hasn t tbeen tbeen tbeen been away was discharged seven seventImes seventimes seventimes tImes by New York magIstratesJudge magistratesJudge magistrates magistratesJudge Judge Nott of ofSmooth Smooth ofSmooth Fellow general ses sesNever sesNever sesNever Never Carries sions slons courtAShootm'lron courtAShootin'Iron court courtA AShootm'lron AShootmlron AShootin'Iron AShootinIron AShootm'lrontwice AShootin'Irontwice A SAooiin ' Iron twice heldhIm heldhim held heldhim him as did didBrIdgeport didBridgeport didBridgeport BrIdgeport Conn several tImes tImesbut timesbut timesbut but he won even seven < to SIX six , , in 23 23years 23years 23years years of t Itmg ltmg with udges Judges ] and andJUrIes andjuries andjuries JUrIes the charges ranging rangmg through throughassault throughassault throughassault assault robbery burglary and horn hornIClde hornicide hornicide IClde icide as involved 1Ovolved m In fur dressing dressinggarment dressinggarment dressinggarment garment flour trucking truckmg and fake fakelabor fakelabor lakelabor labor un on racketsHe racketsHe rackets racketslie lie He has never carried a gun gunand gunand gunand and as befits hefits the richest rlchcst of oC all allmdu allindustrial allindustrial mdu industrial trlal racketeers . keeps I.eeps Ieeps the thestrong thestrong thestrong strong arm stu.IJmovmg stuffmoving stuff stu.IJ stuIJ . moving movmg smooth smoothly smoothly smoothly ly with perhaps no more than thanan thanan thanan an inter-office inter office mter-office mter - - memorandum to tocarry tocarry tocarry carry it through Unlike hIs hIspredecessors hispredecessors hispredecessors predecessors of ot such amateur amateurIsh amateurish amateurish Ish outfits as the Gas House HouseGang HouseGang HouseGang- HouseGang HouseGanghe Gang - he is no show-off show off - - never neverwears neverwears neverwears wears conspicuous clothes clothesspeaks clothesspeaks clothesspeaks speaks softly and is never out outm outm outin m front Bis HIs gang at times tuncs has hasmcluded hasincluded hasincluded mcluded included more than 500 50D thuty thirty thutysecond thirtysecond thirtysecond second degree hoodlums andJ andJIdgar and J : JEdgar JEdgar Idgar Edgar : Hoover of the FBI to towhom towhom towhom whom he surrenders has put puthIm puthim puthim hIm down as a co partner of the theBarker theBarker Barker arker Karpis Karpls kidnaping kldnapwg gang gangand gangand gangand and other equally unpopnlar unpopular unpopnlaroutfits unpopularoutfits unpopularoutfits unpopularoutfitsHe outfitsHe outfits He was born in m Essex street on onNew onNew onNew New York s Lower East S de in in1897 1897 one of 11 children All hIs hIsbrothers hisbrothers hisbrothers brothers and sisters are honest and andrespectable andrespectable andrespectable respectable No explanat on of o1 hIs hIserrant hiserrant hiserrant errant ways has ever been offered offeredIn offeredIn offeredIn In his early youth he formed a apartnersh apartnersh apartnersh partnersh p with young Jacob Sha Shap Shap Shap p ro the beg nmng nning of o1 a long and andpo andpo andpo po sonous friendship They worked workedup workedup workedup up from such small beginnings begmnmgs as aspackage aspackage aspackage package snatchmg snatching and maulmg mauling maulmgpushc3rt maulingpushcart maulingpushcart pushc3rt pushcart peddlers and taking on onlured onhired onhired lured hired help began to take over old oldestabl oldestabl oldestabi establ shed shcd cr me firms such as the theK theK theK K d Dropper Droppcr gang The r first tirst b g gbusmess gbusiness gbusiness busmess business outreach was when whcn they theybcgan theybegan theybegan bcgan began systematically to shoot up the theleather theleather theleather leather buslncss business businessCo buslncssCo ( Co soUdatcd soildo.ted soildoted solldatcd . 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