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