Show S WHO'S NEWS 4 js THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON N NEW TEW EW YORK In YORK In Europe a few IN years ago this writer met a friend who had just interviewed Gen Ismet who Is today Turkeys Turkey's Turkeys Turkey's Turkeys Turkey's Tur Tur- keys key's new dicta- dicta Dictator tor succeeding An Iron Man Kemal Yet who vho died recent- recent a Diplomat ly Hes He s the smartest hombre I ever met said my friend He talked to me for two hours frank and honest looking looking look look- ing lag me right in the eye and never holding out on anything He was charming and brilliant and he didn't ask rrie me not to print anything I thought I had a great story But when I started to write it there was just nothing there I saw him several times after that and realized realized realized real real- that he was a master In heart- heart to-heart to talk which left no commitments commitments commit commit- ments whatsoever I saw cagey diplomats diplomats diplomats dip dip- kissed off just as I had been The m man n is a marvel of brains and ingenuity The small fragile deaf ingratiating ing General is the hero of the Turkish army premier until a year ago when he was mysteriously benched by Kemal There were rumors that he was engaged in international negotiations of such subtlety that he found it necessary to keep out of office and off cIt It n was In 1920 1020 that young Colonel Ismet joined l Iu Mustafa Kemal in Anatolia i By 1922 1912 he had driven the Greeks out of ot Anatolia and Smyrna and in inthis inthis inthis this period and thereafter he ho was Kemal chief military military mili mm tary aide He added to his bis laurels lau lau- when at the 1923 Lausanne conference he lie ran rings around British and Italian diplomats and won for or Turkey virtually its demands He was one of few men who retained retained re re- re- re tamed the confidence of to the tile end He lIe was a firm and exactIng exacting exacting exact exact- ing and at times ruthless ruler of the army and is said said to lack none of the traditional specifications of the theiron theiron theiron iron man It is apparent that Ismet is intent on keeping Turkey diplomatically diplomatically diplomat diplomat- liquid that he fully realizes the bargaining power of Turkeys Turkey's hegemony over the Moslem bloc and that he probably will use this and other strategic assets in making making making mak mak- ing some shrewd bargains Q T TALL ALL aust austere re Sumner Welles a deft precisionist in career diplomacy diplomacy diplomacy diplo diplo- macy is merely undersecretary of state but stage off hes he's the man key of a critical In Sumner Welles enA enA enA en- en A Specialist in counter and a aS S S. 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A Relation Relations P policy draughtsman draughts draughts- man in whose hands a chart of our South American Ameri Amen can procedure is taking shape He helped initiate and has diligently fostered the good neighbor policy in Latin-America Latin and his radio address address address ad ad- dress urging a together get In the Western hemisphere received a good press in those countries But Buta a bad press in Germany His Ills plea for Joint defense against any threat of attack is in interesting contrast to his speeches of a year ago as-a when ho he appealed to the nations of the world for a new world order based on justice and law He weighs the actualities of trade finance and the collective safety and solvency of the Western world Something like a picture of a western league of nations begins begins' begins begins' be be- gins' gins to emerge as the great turn toward the vast raw material storehouse of South America After his graduation from Hanyard Harvard Harvard Har Han vard yard in 1914 Franklin D D. D Roosevelt then assistant secretary of the navy helped him enter career diplomacy In his early thirties he was high commissioner to the Dominican Republic Republic Re Re- public the author of ot Vineyard a volume two study of that country He was made ambassador ambassador ambassador am am- to Cuba by President Roosevelt In 1933 He became undersecretary undersecretary undersecretary un un- un- un of state last year n P ROBERT OBERT DONAT DOMAT the English acton actor ac- ac tv tor ton on the take up-take in The Citadel Citadel Cita Cita- del and other films made so many unsuccessful tries at the screen seven years ago Laughing at that they called Despair Gets him Screen Donat Fame Tes Test tM Donat A competent actor he met hard luck and was all but desperate as something always went wrong wong One day in what he ha- was sure would be his last try the director told him to register despair The irony of his merely imitating despair sent him into demoniac laughter Alexander Korda in another another an- an other room heard him Si Sign n that man up whoever lie he is said Korda That a great performance He lie had what it took toole and they routed him hini right night through to fame and riches lIe Ho won by challenging ing t a homily homily IDo Do not despair Consolidated ted News Features Service |