Show WHO'S I NEWS NEW I THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON N NEW EV YORK England England pioneered the businessman diplomat diplomat- shrewdly and effectively it would seem Many of her best fixers and negotiators Best Fixers throughout t the h he e Have Stake world have been In Deals men who had a personal stake in inthe inthe inthe the outcome of their operations They were not disinterested perhaps perhaps per per- haps but no more were the traditional traditional I diplomats who knew protocol perhaps but nothing about oil America followed with Norman Norman Norman Nor Nor- man II Davis a financier who became an effective European swing man under five presidents presidents presidents dents and then came Spruille Braden engineer and industrialist industrial industrial- 1st who was our ambassador at large in Latin America until ho became minister to Colombia last April President Roosevelt agreeing to act ct as an arbitrator in the Chaco I dispute picks Mr Braden to represent represent sent him In his own private Industrial industrial industrial Indus indus- trial diplomacy throughout South I America the husky and gregarious Mr Braden has proved himself an excellent pacifier and trouble trouble- shooter He knows the score in oil copper rubber minerals hides and what whatnot whatnot not and this ma- ma Braden Wise and parIn parIn parIn par par- In Latin diplo- diplo Diplomacy macy has made him hina useful in m diplomatic dip- dip representations at various I South American conferences He has been working on the Chaco settlement settlement set set- for the last three years In his youth he did a short turn in the mines near Elkhorn Mont his native town to and then went ent to Yale and became a mining engi engi- neer He was a string second halfback at Yale but a first string engineer and promoter from the start electrifying electrifying elec dee Chile for Cor Westinghouse organizIng organizing or or- ng the Bolivia-Argentina Bolivia Exploration Exploration Exploration Ex Ex- Ex- Ex corporation branching out widely in South American development development develop develop- development ment and finance He desperately wanted to be minister to Chile but was consoled with Colombia He is four forty years old remembered remembered remembered re re- re- re in New York as the fastest and working hardest-working handball player around Jack O'Brien's gymnasium in which he combated a tendency to plumpness creeping up on him hima a bit In late years He was married in 1915 to the beautiful and socially eminent Senorita Senorita Se- Se norita Maria del Solar of Chile They have three daughters and two sons Their New York residence residence residence res res- is the former George W W. Perkins Perkins Perkins Per Per- kins estate at the Riverdale son son- C CARL ARL J. J HAMBRO burly president president president dent of the Norwegian parliament parliament parlia parlia- ment Is in America for tor a lecture tour There is an interesting cutback cutback cutback cut cut- back in his career Predicted At Geneva in Collapse 1927 he staged Of League a spectacular debate debate de de- debate de- de bate with Austen Austeri Chamberlain in which speaking for forthe forthe forthe the small states he vehemently Insisted Insisted Insisted In In- that the league must find a away away away way to restrain strong aggressors or else find itself itsel impotent and discredited discredited discredited dis dis- dis- dis credited in a few years With equal vehemence Mr lUr Chamberlain proclaimed the tho trustworthiness of the strong states and their humanitarian aims Warning Mr nIr Hambro against overt restraints by the league he said Along that road lies danger Mr Hambro was the most distinguished distinguished distin distin- distinguished recruit of the Oxford group movement in 1935 and has since I been a leader of ot the movement in Norway Returning from a luncheon attended attend attend- ed by Dr Frank Buchman founder of ot the Ule movement in Geneva he be told of the mystic exaltation of the company company com com- pany pony and later announced his adherence adherence adherence ad ad- to the Ule group Although a conservative Mr Hambro is the president of the Labor Labor La La- Labor bor party of Norway For many years he has been leading the fight of the smaller nations in the league Arriving in New York he remarks dryly that Norway Is old-fashioned old she she has a surplus in her budget Consolidated News Features Service |