Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N EW YORK england pioneered the businessman diplomat shrewdly and effectively it would seem many of her best fixers and negotiators best fixers throughout t the h e have stake world have been in deals men w ano ho had ad a personal stake in the outcome of their operations they were not disinterested perhaps but no more were the traditional diplomats who knew protocol perhaps but nothing about oil america followed with norman il II davis a financier who became an effective european swing man under five presidents and then came spruille brauen braden engineer and industrialist who was our ambassador at large in latin america until he became minister to colombia last april president roosevelt agreeing to act as an arbitrator in the chaco dispute picks mr braden to represent him in his own private industrial diplomacy throughout south america the husky and gregarious mr braden has proved himself an excellent pacifier and troubleshooter he knows the score in oil copper rubber minerals hides and what not and this ma braden wise serialized and parn in latin diplo diplomacy macy has made him useful in diplomatic representations at various various south american conferences he has been working on the chaco settlement for the last three years in his youth he did a short turn in the mines near elkhorn mont his native town and then went to yale and became a mining engineer en i he was a second string halfback at yale but a first string engineer and promoter from the start electrifying ying chile for westinghouse organizing gan izing the bolivia argentina exploration corporation branching out widely in south american development and finance he desperately wanted to be minister to chile but was consoled with colombia ile he is forty tour four years old remembered in new york as the fastest and hardest working handball player around jack OB gymnasium in which he combated a tendency to plumpness creeping up on him a bit in late years ile he was married in 1915 to the beautiful and socially eminent senorita maria homeres del solar ot of chile they have three daughters and two sons their new york residence is the former george W perkins estate at riverdale rivendale on the hud son CARL J HAMBRO burly president of the norwegian parliament is in america for a lecture tour there is an interesting cutback in his career predicted at geneva in collapse 1927 he be staged of league a spectacular debate with austen chamberlain in which speaking for the small sma U states he vehemently insisted that the league must fi find I 1 nd a w way ay to restrain strong aggressors or e else ise find itself impotent and discredited in a few years with equal vehemence mr chamberlain proclaimed the he trustworthiness of the strong states and their humanitarian aims warning mr air hambro against overt restraints by the league lie he said along that road lies danger mr hambro was the most distinguished recruit of the oxford group movement in 1935 and has since been a leader of the movement in norway returning from a luncheon attended by dr frank buchman founder of the movement in geneva he be told of the mystic exaltation of the company and later announced his adherence to the group although a conservative mr hambro is the president of the labor party of norway for many years he has been leading the fight of the smaller nations in the league arriving in new york he remarks dryly that norway is old fashioned she has a surplus in her budget 0 consolidated news es service |