Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON TEW YORK georges bonnet anfrances NEW NF minister frances rances new foreign has been a vigorous advocate of a british french american alliance he is regarded as french may more in accord join four with the chamber power pact lain policies than his predecessors with the downfall of the L left eft government ern ment the conclusion ol of an anglo italian agreement greer nent and the appointment aP POnti of M bonnet interpreters eters of 0 european politics see an advance toward a four power pact possibly in and the five power with poland further isolation and immobilize tion of russia the abandonment ol 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 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 alibi players in france at his country place at at st st georges de didonne he spends much time making M bonnet incredible kanga cuts didos roo leaps playing on estate pema 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 boies gras he had to take most of it back however as in in july he was recalled to save the franc in the chautemps cabinet lie ile was supposed to have saved it but as usual it stay saved and in the turn of 0 the ferris wheel which is french politics he was down under and up again he is an economist but also a philiip philosopher opher and author in the chamber 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 gold rimmed spectacles strongly authoritarian i JAPANS government with its feudal car ry over has never fitted exactly into any of the molds of ultramodern ultra a modern absolutism the spotlight intensifying issue now on jap of fascism which strong man ayan may Y force ace 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 11 unity and discipline and tile the I 1 like ike more than any other leader he employs the standard terminology of fascism if that means anything on may 27 1937 he be gave the diet quite a lacing and said that it would have to behave or sugiyama 0 we will dissolve tells inells diet it since he be was to B behave eh a v then a member of the ruling military milita ry 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 1936 and hence not track sore like some of his rivals he did not become a general until 1936 after the army revolt early in that year he had been vice minister of war and head of the military air force his heavily face resting 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 ry college he represented japan at the 1926 disarmament conf conference e renac at geneva remaining in europe for several years thereafter 0 consolidated news feature rem service |