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Show I WHO'S NEWS I THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Parton XTKW YORK. There was a tijtr ' In an open door in China, the door of a cave, and not John llny's open door. Young JoK'-ph Chirk Crew cravl'rd In Prowess as bnrS kli,.d n. That, Hunter Won phis a decision Grew a Job 8 w"l bear, so delighted, even enraptured, Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt that he rnude the young man a diplomat. That was In 1004. In Tokyo, Ambassador Am-bassador Grew relays notes and apologies back and forth, as an ambassador am-bassador would at a time like this, but his job Is a lot more important than that and his qualifications much greater. He Is a singularly shrewd, tactful tact-ful and seasoned career diplomat. In the State department, It Is apparent ap-parent that, as Governor Landon said, "Politics stops at the water's edge," and Mr. Grew, a Hoover appointee, ap-pointee, has in his experienced hands the furtherance of the President's Presi-dent's policy In the Far East at a time of possibly critical tension. He and Franklin D. Roosevelt had a casual acquaintance at Groton and Harvard. The young Bostonian, get- , ting his sheepskin, lost no time in heading for Singapore to get himself him-self a tiger skin. He took on all comers In the jungle jun-gle in any kind of milling they wanted, some of Knock Down lt bare . handed Jungle Rowt rough - and - tum- Hi, Delight Ie" For 'wye"s he h u n t e d big game in southern Asia and then wTote a book about it, "Sport and Travel in the Far East." He had vague ideas then about what he wanted to do when he finished fin-ished his jungle engagement, but was Inclined toward writing. The bear story, a red-hot pulp magazine splash, caught T. R.'s eye when he was browsing through young Grew's book. A youth who could get a half-nelson half-nelson on an angry bear was T. R.'s idea of a diplomat. As soon as the cables were open the next morning, they were routing Joseph Clark Grew, the bear-wrangler, into a lifetime life-time of career diplomacy, via a post with the Egyptian consulate-general at Cairo. Without a single foot-slip he moved on up, through 33 years in posts at Mexico City, Petrograd, Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen and Berne. He was secretary of the American delegation at the Versailles Ver-sailles peace conference and a member of many governmental missions mis-sions and conferences. He is fifty-seven years old, tall, weathered, graying, with a heavy gray moustache. Types Own smoking an old Reports to drop - stem pipe, President rapping out his onion-skin reports to the President on his own similarly simi-larly durable career typewriter. Mrs. Grew is a granddaughter of Commodore Perry, who, for good or ill, opened Japan to the West, and vice-versa, in 1853. Living with them at the embassy is their daughter, Mrs. Cecil Lyon, and her two children. chil-dren. Diplomats are always getting an earful of something or other, and one ear failed to stand the strain. But, with his one good ear, Mr. Grew hears plenty and pegs out concise, always-dependable, reports to the President. . AMERICANS versed in the ways and the personalities of international inter-national diplomacy aver that Italy's loss is the gain of the United States in the appointment of Count Rene Doynel de St. Quentin as French ambassador to this country. Fifty-four years old and a bachelor, bache-lor, accomplished signally in all the arts of social intercourse as well as in his essential profession of statecraft, Count St Quentin is very precisely an exponent of the traditional tradi-tional French school of diplomacy. It will perhaps be recalled that the count had previously been named as ambas-F ambas-F ranee and sador to Italy and Duce Find that, when Musso- an Impasse vfl tasisted ttat the new envoy's credentials be addressed to "the king of Italy and emperor of Ethiopia," Ethi-opia," the Quai d'Orsay proved recalcitrant. re-calcitrant. Unwilling to recognize the conquest con-quest of Haile Selassie's kingdom, the French insisted that the address ad-dress be merely to "the king of Italy." So arose an impasse which endures to this day, vm both nations na-tions lacking that comity of relationship rela-tionship and genial understanding normally implied in ambassadorial representation. During the attempt of France and Great Britain to ease the Italo-Ethi-opian situation by negotiation in the period before the imposition of sanctions, Count St. Quentin had served his country as technical expert ex-pert in the delicate issue, and previously, pre-viously, in 1932, he had served in similar capacity as French representative repre-sentative on the international committee com-mittee that investigated conditions in Liberia. In other fields, in the course of his diplomatic career, his government has utilized his profound pro-found knowledge of African affairs. Consolidated News Featurps Wis u Service, |