| Show C NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features service N EW YORK paul reynaud i 1 who was asked to form a new french cabinet and successor to premier deladier Da ladier put through the dreint F er desires french brit ish monetary ney british french and economic monetary union accord of last december and even bafo before re the start of the war was an advocate of a close financial union between the two countries as the first bulwark of their joint defense for several years he has been studying english finance and history insisting that both nations must abandon their old plan of remaining apart in the matter of monetary and economic relationships ile he is a lawyer financier and economist minister ol of finance since october 1938 in the chamb chamber er ot of deputies he represents a big business section of paris and has contended vigorously against governmental meddling in business in 1935 and 1936 he made a courageous fight for the devaluation of the franc an issue which is always loaded in france and always sidestepped by more cautious politicians his bis business sagacity was demonstrated in the summer of 1929 when he warned all and sundry that a big smash was coming and withdrew all of his securities from the mar ket he is as direct decisive and fiery as deladier Da ladier is ponderous and meditative and for many years has been making prophecies more gloomy than cassandras foredoom of troy as he urged france to prepare for the worst he parts his hair in the middle strings with the alliance Democrat ique a center group and has never been classified as either right or left he is said to be too intelligent to be liked and does not seem to mind he is small and alert only slightly gray at 60 carefully groomed and the master of a verbal short jab which seldom invites a return engagement for an anyone y inclined to mix with him he was a holdout on kavals deal to give mussolini a green light in ethiopia and in this connection warned france that it had better be looking to its empire in politics since 1919 in the chamber since 1928 he was previously minister of finance in eus cabinet he comes of a family high in the mountains of barcelonnette Barce lonnette of a clan which has extensive holdings in several foreign countries including mexico D more stately mansions baor ij for his soul fritz mandl the austrian runner up for was interrupted by adolf hitler in a new arms plants ni new york are being built municipal by fritz arltz mandl coutt court an austrian architect sues mr mandl for payment for designs for a new wing on his alpine castle when he was married to hedy lamarr the screen star now the wife of gene markey hollywood producer the castle and the plans were a war casualty but mr mandl is sitting pretty in argentina the hidalgo of a great estate and getting a fast running start with new steel and munitions plants in the land of the pampas ile he fooled hitler his great arms plants including the hirt enberg plant were supposed to be worth about that was a nice fat at grouse for the nazi but when der fuehrer moved in he be found the great plants just a hollow shell the securities long since liquidated and mr mandl at a safe nose thumbing distance with his former fortune remaining more or less intact now 40 years old round faced and merry he was a playboy in his youth but stayed on the job in his later years the munitions works were a family holding f founded by his grandfather sigmund and expanded by his father alexander he was an associate of the fallen prince ernst ruediger von star hemberg in the vienna putsch of 1934 not at all interested in political ideologies and smarter than the prince in both making a getaway get away from hitler and from germany as well as being able to save his fortune Nm OT a refugee fortune but the i makings akings of a new one appears in the operations of arnold bernstein who also found a hole in the nazi line A freighter of the americanized arnold bernstein shipping lines burns at baltimore but it was ansur insured ed and his newly recruited ships are running cargos to europe and his fleet is expanding he came here last october from a nazi jail where a tangle over the mysterious blocked marks had landed him at 51 a tall pale thoughtful man he hei gets a new start I 1 |
