Show WHO'S I n NEWS 4 THIS 14 WEEK 1 By LEMUEL F. F PARTON N TS TEW NEW EW YORK YORK Georges Georges Bonnet Frances France's new foreign minister has been a vigorous advocate of a French British alliance He Is regarded as F French Tench May more in accord Join Four with the Chamber Chamber- Power Pact lain lam P policies than his predecessors With the downfall of the Left government government government gov gov- the conclusion of ot an Anglo Anglo- Italian agreement and the appointment appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment of M. M Bonnet interpreters o of at European politics see an nn advance toward a power four-power pac pact possibly power five-power with Poland in and the further isolation and Immobilization tion of Russia The abandonment ef of the Soviet French-Soviet treaty is expected cx to be an immediate issue in what is regarded as a sharply clarifying clari clad clarifying outline of dominant conservative conservative conser conser- policy in hi France and England M. M Bonnet shrewd suave dressy I is a somewhat rakish figure with i his hat usually on the back of his I head but a personage of power and dignity in the political forum He Heis Heis Heis is is of ot the younger school of French politics and in that tha t connection one of the best Jai Alai players player in France At his country place at St St. Georges de Didonne he spends much time tune making M. M Bonnet incredible kanga kanga- Cuts Didos roo leaps playing on Estate pelota basque as they call it there But in statesmanship he is no rubber rub rub- ber ber heeled bounding basque He Heis Heis Heis is rather a wary and adroit fencer When he was appointed ambassador ambassador ambas ambas- to the United States in January January January Janu Janu- ary 1937 he brought with him a ayears ayears ayears years year's supply of truffles and pate de de- gras Bras He had to take most of it back however as in July he was recalled to save the franc in the Chautemps cabinet He De was supposed to have saved it but as usual it didn't stay saved and in the turn of the Ferris wheel which is French politics he was down- down un under cr and up again He is an economist but also a philosopher and author in the chamber chamber chamber cham cham- ber of deputies from southwest France at the age of thirty six and anda a former minister of budget pensions pensions pensions pen pen- and finance He budgets a afew afew afew few wisps of hair carefully across his bald pate and surveys the world warily through rimmed gold-rimmed spec spec- JAPANS JAPAN'S APAN'S strongly authoritarian J government with its feudal carryover carryover carryover car car- ry-over ry has never fitted exactly into any of the molds of ultra-modern ultra absolutism The Spotlight intensifying issue Now on Jap of fascism which Strong Man may force out the present government government government govern govern- ment spotlights several look likely ing fag strong men as possible successors successors successors suc suc- to Premier Konoye The only one with apparently clearly formulated ideas and n a fluent fluent fluent flu flu- ent line of totalitarian talk is War Minister General Sugiyama After several years of European European European Euro Euro- post-graduate post studies in di direct direct direct di- di action he returned to talk of or national renovation decadent decadent decadent de cadent unity and discipline the the like More than any nn other leader lead lead- er he employs the standard terminology of fascism if fascism if that means anything On May 27 1937 he gave the diet quite a lacing and said that it would have to behave or Sugiyama We will dissolve Tells Diet it Since he was to Behave then a member Of the ruling military triumvirate this was no casual editorial edi edi- editorial we While he is fifty eight years old he hits time big-time politics with a strong momentum not a contender for high place until 1936 and hence not track-sore track like some of ot his ri rivals ri- ri vals He did not become a general m until l 1936 after the army revolt early in hi that year He had been vice minister of war and head of the military air force His heavily face resting resting resting rest rest- ing reckless on a heavy torso Is asymmetrical with one eyebrow al always always always al- al ways cocked one side watchful and mobile the other hardened in inthe inthe the lute set of a Benda mask of a dicta dIcta- tor He Is of the army caste graduated graduated from the Ule national military col col- col- col lege He represented Japan in the 1926 disarmament conference at Geneva Genev remaining in Europe for lor several years thereafter 0 Cons Consolidated News Fo features Service |