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Show p51 WHO'S I 7 NEWS kyi TH,S WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. In the light of continuing con-tinuing difficulties in establishing establish-ing a safe and comfortable world order, it is interesting to recall . that Rousseau Union of Europe, ..coppered the Then of World, bet" after he c d l j fa had set up his Force Behind It ..social con. tract" and his nicely behaved "natural "nat-ural man." When he considered his paragon in the light of international relations, he counseled for the world "a general league, fully armed," the last two significant words implying imply-ing quite a considerable qualification of all he had written before. Lord David Davies, president of the University of Wales, out for a federated Europe, makes a similar concession to eternal cussedness, having first given his heart to the hawks in his advocacy of a league of nations staked mainly on human brotherhood. broth-erhood. Now he calls for the police. His views are relayed to this country in a letter to Rep. Harold Knutson of Minnesota. Minne-sota. They are new only in that he is now narrowing them to a European federation rather than a world state. Now, as for several years past, he Insists that the most urgently needed need-ed arrangement is for a world police po-lice force, in the form of an international inter-national navy, and land forces ii necessary. The lack of power tc enforce decrees is what he thinks killed the league. Last year, he formed the new commonwealth society, so-ciety, with Winston Churchill heading head-ing it in England. He says it is established and progressing in 14 countries. A federated Europe would be the first step toward a federated world. Lord Davies is not only a University Uni-versity president, but an industrialist, indus-trialist, a director of the Great Western railway and the Midland Mid-land bank and chairman of most of the great colliery enterprises of Great Britain. He was in parliament for more than 20 years. He was a leader in the early campaign for a league of nations union and is now a trustee. His proposal, like the several other oth-er plans for continental unity, is sharply at variance with Clarence Streit's "Union now." In Lord Davies' Da-vies' plan, the state, backed by force, would be the unit in the cooperative co-operative endeavor; in Mr. Streit's plan, the individual is the unit and force is repudiated. A NOTHER possible defection from the prevailing European power complex appears in the apparent ap-parent political drift of handsome D . , . young Crown Prince Humbert Prince Hum. Nucleus of New bert of Italy. Power in Italy H" h,as f" i J sharply alooi from the Fascist political regime, and there are persistent report? from many observers, journalistic and others, that he and the king are taking the play away from Mussolini. Mus-solini. With the powerful Marshal Badoglio, also a hold-out against the Fascists, he has been somewhat some-what less than lukewarm about the axis and overtly opposed to joining Germany in the war. He is 35 years old, personable and popular, the master of five Ian-t Ian-t guages, trained in the army l since he was nine years old, 1 with a strong army following behind him. His wife was Princess Prin-cess Marie Jose of Belgium. They have a small son and daughter. 'TPHE important assignment of de- -- livering arms shipments from this country to Europe is handed to a man who is somewhat of a spe- , .m r, , clalist in that Get War Goods line He is sir Across the Sea, Ashley Sparks Is Sparks' Task K' B" f. ' who was director of the British ministry of shipping in the World war. Then as now, ' he was resident director of the Cun-ard Cun-ard line for the United States, having hav-ing taken this post in 1916, after 19 years' previous residence here. His new responsibility, as head of the United States branch of the British ministry of shipping, ship-ping, will be to get the war materials ma-terials across, in co-operation with Arthur B. Purvis, head of the British purchasing commission commis-sion in this country. Sir Ashley was first here in 1897 in an office job with the shipping firm of Shewan, Tomes & Co., of Hongkong. An outpost of empire, ready when needed, he is in all else a New Yorker, entertaining lavishly at his beautiful estate near Syosset, Long Island. J (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) |