| Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON alisha NEW EW YORK leslie hore be alsha british secretary of war made himself somewhat of a national hero several months ago when he shook up britain in the army corn com race to get mand upped the army ready youngsters a and n d sent uia the oldsters back to their club chairs theire the report of his ultimatum demanding change of foreign policy Is a standout in the current news there was something like consternation mong british conservatives early in 1037 1937 when prime minister chamberlain named the incidentally jewish mr hore belosha tor for the war post there was no hint of anti semitism in their attitude but just then certain optimists mong them were trying to tool britain into the german orbit and there were alarmed predictions that hitler would bs be enraged and seek quick I 1 vengeance I 1 that come off and the new war secretary started a whirlwind army cleanup clean up and all round reconditioning cam laign to tho the satisfaction of all hands seventy nine year old sir sl laa ian hamilton who had been in command at tho the dardanelles Darda nelles said thank god we aro are under a proper soldier and will not bo be shot sitting down lie he has spent a lot of time badgering his elders and still has many of them to work clever at on as he Is only badgering forty three when hi his s elders a brash young he ran for parliament his opponent tagged j him as the nonentity of the college bench ile he hailed this on his masthead mast head spoofed the opposition cleverly and romped in ile he was dis dispatch carrier in the war then a major a reporter on a london newspaper with convenient unde underground reground rg round pipelines to the front page and the headlines ile iio became financial secretary of 0 the he treasury in 1032 and later minister of transportation lie iio Is a demon for detail and his has warmed swarmed all over england inspecting spec ting equipment barracks and army kitchens ile he is of medium stature with ro reached broached graying calr hah unmarried and given to night forays checking trisor this or that detail of the military establishment AT A T LEAST six times in the past years the Rothschild have shave been counted out and they have always come back ilke ilka john barleycorn and 01 old conquerors king cotton now old stuff to the arrest of barban fe family on louis von vo rothschild Is re ported from vienna the era which founded was disquiet disquietingly me like this one the tha romanoff Roma and the Haps burgs disraeli and all the other kings king conquerors and statesmen came to terms with them baron louis bouts Is tho the head of the house the catastrophic fall of th tha 0 bank of vienna in 1031 was wag supposed to have wrecked them A few weeks later they were shoveling money into american securities and it was reported snagging a stray million hero here and there hero by a fast overseas play on francs an old family custom louis and his brother alphonse were living in regal splendor when n the Credit ansta it deer parks failed ailed they had and castles great gre at estates estat es faded away magnificent art galleries shooting lodges a huge franz lehar chorus of retainers deer parks and a brace braca of medle medieval al castles much of these holdings slipped awai away as louis with somewhat less than the usual family zest and acumen in financial affairs turned to a study of philosophy and the arts it Is years since napoleon after austerlitz made mada mincemeat mince meat of bf the holy roman empire and even more ruthlessly dismembered austria nathan james and solomon von rothschild sons of mayor ana am elm founder of the line not only saved aved their holdings but extended their dominions to the remotest corner of europe these vast ramifications of their fortune f 01 tune one of the largest in the history of the world were in land steel coal ties ries and munitions and in later decades in oil and power libraries have been written about them one ona notable record being zolas Ll largent Argent their continental money matrix has been a stabilizer at times it Is possible that the vienna lall all I 1 door clangs the tha end of a dynasty an and d an epoch but not quite quate certain history will tell A 0 consolidated news features feature service |
