Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated feature service EW YORK paul reynaud Bey naud L who was asked to form a new french cabinet and successor to premier deladier Da ladier ladler put through the french brit premier D desires r ish monetary british french and economic monetary union accord of last december and even before the start ol of the war was an advocate of a close financial union between the two countries as the first bulwark of their joint defense for several years he has been studying english finance and history insisting that thai both nations must abandon their old plan of remaining apart in the matter of monetary and economic relationships lie ile is a lawyer financier and economist minister of finance since october 1938 in the chamber of deputies he represents a big business section of paris and has contended vigorously against governmental meddling in business in 1935 and 1936 he fie made a courageous fight for the devaluation of the franc an issue which is always loaded in france and always sidestepped by more cautious politicians ills business sagacity was demonstrated in the sum raer mer of 1929 when he warned all 11 and sundry that a b big ig smash mash was coming and withdrew all of his securities from the market he is as direct decisive and fiery as deladier Da ladler ladier is ponderous and dative and for many years has been making prophecies more gloomy than cassandras foredoom of troy as he urged france to prepare tor for the worst he parts his hair in the middle strings with the alliance a center group and has never been classified as either right or left ile he is said to be too intelligent to be liked and does not seem to mind he is small and alert only slightly glayat gray at 60 carefully groomed and the master of a verbal short jab which seldom invites a return engagement for anyone inclined to mix with him he was a holdout on Lava lideal to give mussolini a green light in ethiopia and in this connection warned france that lt ita had better be looking to its empire in politics since 1919 in the chamber since 1928 he was previously minister of finance in Tard Tar leus dicus cabinet he comes of a family high in the mountains of barcelonnette Barce lonnette of a clan which has extensive holdings in several foreign countries including mexico more stately mansions B BUILDING for his soul fritz mandl the austrian runner up for Zaha was interrupted by adolf hitler in a new arms plants ni new ew york are being built municipal by fritz frits mandl courts an aus trian architect sues mr mandl for payment tor for designs for a new wing on his bis alpine castle when he was married to hedy lamarr the screen star now the wife of gone gene markey hollywood producer the castle and the plans were a war casualty but mr mandl is sitting pretty in argentina the hidalgo of a great estate and getting a last fast running pluming start with new steel and munitions plants in the land of the pampas lie he fooled hitler ills his great arms plants including the wrt enberg plant were were supposed to be worth about abent that was a nice fat grouse for the nazi namrod but bat when der fuehrer moved in he found the great plants just a hollow shell the securities long since liquidated and mr mandl at a safe nose thumbing distance with his former fortune remaining more or less intact now 40 years old round faced and merry he was a playboy in his youth but stayed on the lob job in hi his bis later years the munitions works were here a family holding founded by his grand grandfather father sigmund and expanded by his father alexander lie he was an associate of the fallen prince ernst ruediger von star hemberg bemberg in the vienna putsch ol of 1934 not at all interested in cal ideologies and smarter than the prince in both making a getaway get away from hitler and from germany as well as being able to save his fortune OT a refugee refuge e fortune but the N NOT makings of a new one appears in the operations of arnold bernstein who also found a hole in the nazi me line A freighter of the americanized arnold bernstein shipping lines burns bums at baltimore but it at wa was insured and his newly recruited ships are running cargos to europe and his fleet is expanding he came here last october from a nazi jail where a tangle over the mysterious blocked marks had landed him at al 51 a tall pale thoughtful man he gets a new nev start |