Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON Consolidated d Feature Features Service NEW YORK When When Oliver Stanley Stanley Stan Stan- ley left the British ministry of ot transport In July 1934 he was succeeded suc sue succeeded by year old Leslie I lore hone a Oliver Stanley Simonite lib Wears Year Hard Hat era erat Then ThenOn ThenOn On a Hard Harel Head and thereafter er they engaged engaged engaged en en- in many brisk parries and sharp ripostes masters mastera of the toil foil rather than the quarterstaff brisk and finished swordsmen both Now it is the ultra conservative Mr Stanley who replaces Mr Hore- Hore as war secretary against a confused contused background requiring more details for full understanding at at least at this distance On October 8 of at last year Mr Stanley offered alTered his resignation as president of the British board of trade At the time it was Indicated that Mr lr r. r Stanley had not found Prime Minister Chamberlains Chamberlain's prosecution pros of at the war sufficiently aggressive aggressive ag ago ag- ag but later reports were that he had bad revolted against the control of the government by an Inner cabInet cabinet cab cab- inet met of four members lie He was persuaded per to withdraw his tion HIs Ilia political alliances have been with the be conservative section section sec sea tion Uon of ot the be army who vehemently vehement vehement- ly Iy opposed the appointment of Mr l Ilore to the be war office of fice flee early Some of the appeasement wing of the be Chamberlain government were bitter biller critics of Mr lr Ilore- Ilore subsequent army anny shakeup In which he be sent ent many oldsters back to te their club chairs It Is possibly this circumstance clr cir which has bas led ta te conJecture conjecture conjecture con con- jecture that Mr Stanleys Stanley's appointment appointment ap ap- ap- ap foreshadows a new rapprochement between extreme extreme ex right elements In Eng ED England England land and Ind Germany the elimination elimination elimina tion of Adolf AdoU Hitler HiUer and a new basis for peace Mr hir Stanleys Stanley's activities since Munich Munich Mu Mu- nich haven't bavent Indicated that he is out for appeasement However it Is clear that the colonel blimps of the army dont don't like Mr Hore and do like Mr Stanley He lie is the secretive tight lipped son on of the genial talkative seventh earl of Derby He lie gathered some lome shining medals in the World war and was parliamentary undersecretary under under-secre- tary in the war office minister of transport minister of ot labor tabor and president of the board of at education before becoming president of ot the British board of at trade As indicated above he is a fencer rather than a hard He is four fifty years of age IBN SAUD of Saudi Arabia KING has wives 29 sons 22 daughters daughters daugh daugh- and a palace with rooms That's a lot of Britain Ponders upkeep and it itA A As A. King Ibn Saud Sauel Is understand understand- Widens Wielen Alliance Alliances able ble that he be may be widening widening widening wid wid- ening his economic alliances as reported reported reported re re- ported in recent dispatches He is also said to be reorganizing an and enlarging enlarging en his air force The first Arab to wrest an autonomous autonomous autonomous state from Britain be he has operated co-operated with the empire but Palestine has bas disturbed him and In various quarters there is speculation specula tion as to whether he intends to use his augmented military resources for tor or against England He lIe has preached the unification of Islam throughout the world and his Influence influence ence as leader of ot the mystic and powerful sect has penetrate penetrated ed among the desert tribes from Iran to West Africa His OIs synthetic state carved out In the Arabian coastal territory In a war post-war deal Is la a complex of or guarded empire Inter Inter- ests With Its proximity to the be theSues Sues Suei canal with the threat of or Russian as well as Italian aggression ag are ag- ag and conspiracy In the Moslem bloc on the road to fadia India In fa- dia dla Saudi Arabia I Is keep goal ing territory and Ibn Ibo Saud's Baud's allegiance allegiance allegiance al al- al- al U Is an urgently Important Important tant tan British asset Since the start of the desert battle bat tie tle of the loudspeakers speakers several years ago along with the Palestine Impasse there have been indications indica indies that Ibn Saud was losing Interest Interest Inter Inter- est as an empire partner Last January he wrote President Roosevelt an appeal for support of the Arabs against the Jews In Palestine Pales Pales- tine with an implication that the Balfour mandate was was was' working against Islam necked Bull-necked voiced bull-voiced King Ibn Saud is six feet tour four Inches tall talland talland talland and weighs pounds On the palm of at his bis hand is ii a mole the mystic stigmata of a master swordsman swords swords- swordsman man in the lore of ot the desert He was once an obscure tribesman fighting his way to power in his middle mid die dle years He lie likes to hold court Inthe in inthe inthe the air sitting cross legged |