Show HE NEWS WS THIS WEEK it 0 by lemuel F pron parton spiritual salesman alda aids tho the ox ford movement ning NEW arm YORK word keeps keep drift ing into this office that the ax arx ford movement Is gaining momentum la in tho the trouble zones of labor diplomacy and incipient war and carnage the alio story persists that its emissaries having converted powerful chinese brought about the rescue of chiang kal shelt shek when he was and prevented civil war that their heir followers now include high officials of japan and that they arc working zealously and will lopes of success to calm the quarrel between china and japan no verification as aa to specific accomplishment can be obtained but this writer Is reliably informed that they have enlisted powerful political and business leaders in europe and the orient and that they aro are concentrating cent rating on certain dangerous situations frankly they are arc evangels angels cv to tho the rich and powerful as they hey say the liopo hope of tho the world lies iles in inducing a spiritual change in those who own and operate it 1 that possibly way may go into tho the files of history as some bome tiling new in the news this week Is the rev samuel moor shoemaker who has been taking over in america as dr frank N X D buchman founder of the movement Is busy with tho the world organization in london he Is prominent in the proceedings of the convocation of oxford movement leaders in thirty live five countries from the tha conference come stories of employers and labor leaders making concessions under the leadership of the christian revolutionaries and averting strikes dr niker Is pastor of calvary calf protestant episcopal chef church ch 0 of f new york for tile the last few years ho be has been preaching that the old evangelism had failed and that hat a new dynamic creed was necessary ile ho became active in the he oxford movement in 1932 since then a vigorous expounder of its faith he insists that only by an enlightened and aggressive mobilization of spiritual forces con can civilization be saved he Is a good looking highly urbanized cleric usually wearing a modish gray business suit he calls himself a spiritual salesman this might convey the erroneous idea that ho he Is an elmer gantry he Is quite the contrary never seeking personal publicity and building a reputation as one of the churchs churche leading scholars with his authorship of nine books in the field ot of religious research and polemics ile iio was born and reared in balti more attended princeton university later taking his doctorate tn in theology in ills his earlier years he was a teacher and evangelist in china and aind it Js Is understood that this exPer experience lence has made him paril particularly cu effective in the peace and regeneration activities in china 0 0 soviet liquidator IN ONE way at least soviet russia Is like traditional america the postmaster Is if the patronage dealer nikolai ivanovich receiving the order of lenin after his management ot the recent liquidations has a threefold three fold office which includes control of posts and telegraphs the selection of personnel for important posts and command ot of the secret political police lie ile Is regarded as second only to stalin in power and the conje conjecture clure among many observers Is that lie may be successor ills predecessors predecessor a in office yere were grim scowling men he was el elevated e vat in september 1036 1030 with national acclaim as a man who knows how to smile forty two years old ho he has been tagged by tho the correspondents as a mystery man just now unveiled by the newspapers as a hanl handsome some personable citizen who looks as if he had just been picking daisies rather than doing a rush job of liquidating lie ile is a certified proletarian a factory worker a at t f fourteen OU arteen a and in 4 military commissioner with various bolshevik units in the revolution in 1929 and 1930 he was vi vice commis commis lioner of agriculture and in 1034 1934 became a member of the he central committee of tb all communist party and a of f the powerful ful party control commission but tor for the most t part ho he has worked quietly behind tho the scenes birely seen saying little adroitly gathering strands of power ills his control of posts and telegraphs dates from 1928 his ether having been deded later he 13 one of the bartys five secretaries and a can tor for membership in the politburo lit buro the high peak of power in the party organization 0 4 news mew rea turf service |