Show NEWS W EEK by LEMUEL F PARTON NEW EW YORK the absence of salon diplomacy or petti petticoat coth politics in the european struggle for a new power balance would be an an oversight by the lady pulls muse use of history readying t h e strings alrh in TV drama of the duce deal century and at last it seems to have been attended to enter lady chamberlain the cleverest woman politician in england widow ol of Sl sir austen obscurely noted in the news as mysteriously busy for tho the last few months in the british italian idallan rapprochement everal weeks ago a sagra saga clous cloua traveler of this writer lp acquaintance back from rome home reported lady chamberlain as an adroitly fostering an understand ing with britain which would bring recognition mccog netlon of ethiopia and a two way split on spain and the mediterranean she has been in rome since november in intimate social intercourse with the more important fascist moguls for many years she has been known as tho the most perfect political hostess in london and has been subtly influential in many big deals deal in continental diplomacy it was wai the she who cooked up the locarno conference at lake maggiore Mag glore in switzerland in 1025 when the delegates were haggling the she packed some hampers and ed cd sir austen how picnic briand and f Str esiman to the at locarno most important made peace picnic tn in all his tory in her hand handsome little yacht they disappeared around a bond in the lake landed in a secluded spot and with the aid of three jurists re rigged europe whatever came out of the confer ence enca for good or ill III is traced to that picnic ai she returned to england she was made dame ot of the grand cross of the british em pire she is a comely ma matron tron of six ty ti to ta sir husten in 1900 1906 lie was fourteen years old er cr she was ivy dundas of one of the leading political families of Engla englana nL in the earlier years of their marriage she was waa credited with hav ing coached her husband in the ul tra english mannerisms which all of the great birmingham family found it expedient to master when they moved to london she is said ald to have been his bis political as well us his social mentor and frequently elec pioneered in hai hl campaigns lady chamberlain is an extreme conservative and is believed to have nurtured plans for a british alliance with the absolutist powers she has an extraordinary flair for dramatic political stage settings and delicate sensitivity to political currents italy conferred on her the gold medal of merit THE HE new york spy roundup round up by tho federal bureau of investigation marks the first front page work out of the G men G men on as rn a oily ally of the secret service front R page p hn ache of in spy hunt the latter told me in washington last summer that J edgar hoovers organization developed in postwar post war years would be an invaluable aid to this count rys defenses against foreign espionage and that to in tho the event of trouble actual 0 or impending no foreign country could hope to duplicate germanys germanas Germ anys exploit in sabotage propaganda and spying before our entry In world war aed reed in short pants when tho the world war started heads beads the new york office of 0 the iho F n D 1 I and deploys hla 75 agents in a red hot spy scenario in which they score as usual with indications today that this Is just the overture six feet 6 lall blond reticent mr Vet la Is a veteran of the F B 1 I war against thu thugs gsand and kidnapers in the bureau since 1028 in charge of 18 offices in his 11 years of service lie ile was horn born in salt luke lake city in 1003 end and took his law degree at the university of washington in 1923 in 1833 1933 he was wounded in the kausas kansas city massacre trading shots with pretty boy eters lie he has participated in most of the bureaus fagout vice and bank robbery cases ho succeeded rhea whitley as head of the new york office on september 11 1937 ile he has a reputation in the bureau tor for always having an airtight tase case against anyone he arrests fi a consolidated news new features feature service |