Show Who's News This Week By ey Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features Release N NEW EW YORK When When Maj Gen 1 1 Robert W. W Crawford talks in earnest his thin small mouth twists and the words come out of one corner corner cor- cor after the if f ner Guns Gas Keeps manner of Grub Rolling to t the h e 1 late ate a t e M Men en in N. N Africa great Cohan The general gener gener- al is in North Africa now talking in earnest to keep guns and grub and gasoline rolling roIling to the American army there He commands the Middle East Service of Supply He reached Africa around the middle of January and had a whole month of ease before work caught up with him Before that he commanded an armored division at Fort Knox The chances are that in Africa he has lost weight For him it would be bean bean bean an easy matter because he has always always always al al- al- al ways been one of our plumper men- men at In the last war the guys in the trenches used to rib the SOS with pointed mention of non- non fighting soldiers They talked that way even when the supply trucks ran Boche barrages like ducks diving into a shower of No 9 shot Very likely the talk in African holes fox-holes is the same and with even less reason for forin forin forin in these days of fluid fronts the Crawford cargo crews are as likely to find themselves alongside alongside alongside along along- side a Mark l VI tank as a purely American supply point In such sucha a dilemma the general instructs the crews to say Vot iss in a loudly deceptive voice if they feel it will help but above all to get a General Crawford is of the army's w elite on two counts He was graduated graduated graduated from West Vest Point He took the best post-graduate post courses War College College College Col Col- lege Command and General Staff school He is a New Yorker 52 years old and was three years out of West Point when we went to war warthe warthe warthe the last time A captain then he finished a lieutenant This was fairly close to par for the year and a half course A A CLARENCE E. E L k GAUSS starting toward bond- bond weary Washington from weary bomb-weary for consultations should have all the TI TIu u TJ On Way Here With news new s we Hand First-Hand Tale of need about abou China China on Weary War y the tip o ohis of his tongue Except for a couple o of turns in Paris and Australia he has served all his diplomatic career there and his career runs back to 1907 Shanghai was his first post He was deputy consul after a while spent at stenography in the house of representatives Then he was consul at Amoy Mukden and finally counselor to the legation at Washington was his birthplace and he got back now and then marrying marrying marrying marry marry- ing a Los Angeles girl on one visit Maybe her preference turned him to the Paris consulate The Australian Australian Australian Austra Austra- lian assignment came later He was our first minister there But when an ambassador to China was needed needed needed need need- ed two years ago he packed up and went back to his old stamping ground He has been a quiet ambassador He has a lean quiet look and a shrewd one too behind neat spec spec- I When he smiles a dimple I that is practically a sinkhole appears in his right cheek This is because he smiles so much more with the right side of his sharp mouth The effect though this description may make it seem otherwise isn't bad badat badat badat at all I TN N RUSSIA a Bolshevist by any A other name is just as Red Thus Trotsky was really somebody else So is Stalin Stalin- And Mikai- Mikai lovich Molo- Molo r T M. M L and j Like Trotsky toft f whose Stalin department Altered Moniker of foreign af affairs affairs af- af f- f fairs considers consid consId- ers Admiral Standley's brusque speech was born means hammer plainly a better way to call a man who set out at 15 years of age to break the old Imperial government l official biography says he was born the son of a shop assistant That was 53 years ears ago By 1905 he was a professed Marxist and a year later joined jollied a bolshevik group Ten years later he was on the Bolshevik Central Committee Meanwhile he lie and Stalin had met and started their newspaper newspaper per Pravda and l had been arrested or exiled thrice Both Lenin and Stalin schooled and he likes to tell of this He likes too to boast that he is isan isan isan an old Bolshevist an early bird among the revolutionists In Russia he is called Stalin's chief aide He HeIs HeIs HeIs Is actually vice premier as well as commissar of foreign affairs but when the Russians say chief aide they mean to point to his loyalty to his superior He is Stalin's Harry Harry Harry Har Har- ry Hopkins is heavy but not fat His hair has grown gray but his thick mustache is still black His mouth is strong confident His wide forehead forehead forehead fore fore- head tops off a face more than ordinarily rood looking lookin |