Show NEWS A THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N ew YORK georges bonnet i frances new foreign minister has been a vigorous advocate ot of a british french american alliance he is regarded as r r french may more in accord join four with the chamber power pact lain policies than his predecessors with the downfall of the left government ern ment the conclusion of an anglo italian agreement and the appointment of M bonnet interpreters of european politics see agn an advance toward a four power pact possibly five power with poland in and the further isolation and immobilization of russia the abandonment of the french soviet treaty is expected to be an immediate issue in what is regarded as a sharply clarifying outline of dominant conservative policy in france and england M bonnet shrewd suave dressy is is a somewhat rakish figure with his hat usually on the back of his head but a personage of power and dignity in the political forum he is of the younger school of french politics and in that connection one of the best jai alai players in in france at his country place at st georges de didonne he spends much time making AJ bonnet incredible kan kanga ga cuts didos roo loo leaps playing on estate pelota basque as they call it there but in statesmanship he is no rub ber heeled bounding basque he is rather a wary and adroit fencer when he was appointed ambassador to the united states in january 1937 he brought with him a years supply of truffles fles and pate de foles gras he had to take most of it back however as in july he was recalled to save the franc in the chautemps cabinet ile he was supposed to have bave saved it but as usual it stay saved and in the turn of the ferris wheel which is french politics he was down under and up again he is an economist but also a philosopher and author in the chamber ber of deputies from southwest france at the age of thirty six and a former minister of budget pensions and finance he budgets a few wisps of hair carefully across his bald pate and surveys the world warily through go gold spectacles 0 0 0 JAPANS strongly authoritarian government with its feudal car ry over has never fitted exactly into any of the molds of ultramodern ultra modern absolutism the of spotlight intensifying issue now on jap of fascism which strong man may force out the present government spotlights several likely look ing strong men as possible successors to premier konoye the only one with apparently clearly formulated ideas and a fluent line of totalitarian talk is war minister general hajima sugiyama after several years of european postgraduate post graduate studies in direct action he returned to talk of national renovation decadent unity and discipline and the like more than any other leader he employs the standard terminology of fascism it if that meads means anything on may 27 1937 he gave the diet quite a lacing and said that it would have to behave or sugiyama we will dissolve tells diet it since he was to behave then a member of the ruling military triumvirate this was no casual editorial we while he is fifty eight years old he hits big time politics with a strong momentum not a contender for high place until 1930 1936 and hence not track sore like some of his rivals va Is lie ile did not become a general genera 1 until 1936 after the army revo revolt it early in that year ile he had been vice minister of war and head of the military air force his heavily face resting nickless kless on a heavy torso is asymmetrical with one eyebrow always cocked one side watchful and the set of a benda mask of a dictator he is of the army caste graduated from the national military college he represented japan at the 1926 disarmament conference at geneva remaining in europe for several years thereafter 0 consolidated news new features service |