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Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK I I By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. Early this year, Germany and Italy were making mak-ing vigorous efforts to swing Brazil into their lineup, perhaps knowing .. better than the Brazil General s rest of the Plea for Unity world what Heartens U. S. ahead-There ahead-There were disquieting reports of their progress, loter offset by more comforting news and now quite definitely scotched, it would appear. The current cur-rent Insistence of General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro that there must be continental unity in the Western hemisphere is the most definitely def-initely responsive message that our state department has yet obtained in its overtures to Latin-America. "We must be prepared to face any eventuality," says the general, "and to ward off attacks at-tacks against this continent of liberty and tolerance." He is known as the "General Grant of Brazil," this tag being due to his suppressing the San Paolo revolt in 1932, and disclosing a penchant pen-chant for co-operation with the government thereafter. Washington made a great fuss over him, when he was here last July, having prevailed pre-vailed over Germany in an encounter encoun-ter of international tuft-hunting Germany was readying a big party for him, but he stopped off here, instead. Fifty years old, round-faced and amiable, he is professional soldier, but bears none of the impress of the military careerist. career-ist. He moved up slowly through grades in the army, and did not become a captain until 1924. He became chief of staff in 1932, commanding an army of 65,000. In 1936, his son, Lieut. Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro Jr., was killed in an airplane accident. He has one daughter. VISCOUNT GORT, commanding the British forces in France, is only 53 years old and therefore escaped es-caped War Minister Leslie Hore- r i i Belisha'sarmy British Oldsters youth move. Reassured by ment of 1937. Gen. Gorton Job !twas one,of Kitchener s men in the early days of the World war, a staff officer, in many engagements, en-gagements, honored with the Military Mili-tary cross, the Victoria cross and the Distinguished Service order. He is rather slight in stature, with thinning hair, quietly unassuming, given to reserve in manner and quiet, easy speech. He was trained at Sandhurst, and in the World war gained a reputation as a shrewd strategist, strate-gist, capable of scoring without with-out sacrificing too many men. He is distinctly of the pre-1914 school of army tradition, and that has been a matter of considerable con-siderable satisfaction in England. Eng-land. Septuagenarians, whispering in their clubs, complained that this young Hore-Bellsha, only 43, was raising the very devil with the army. With the sixth Viscount Gort still on the job, there is reassurance. reassur-ance. 'TVHERE seems to be a bit of nov- elty in a college course on how not to get hysterical In wartime. President Ralph C. Hutchison, pres- f, ident of Wash- College Offers mgton a n d Course in Sanity Jefferson col- In Time of War lee- Quite given to academic aca-demic innovations, announces the course, or rather courses, with four faculty members teaching four courses, each yielding full college credit. Origins and inducements of war, the propaganda build-up and particularized information on any particular war which. might be in the offing will be elaborated to boost calm reason and prevent "mass hysteria." It was in 1933 that Dr. Hutchison Hutchi-son told a state convention of New Jersey school teachers that "education in high schools, colleges col-leges and universities has become be-come the great American racket." rack-et." His idea, later expounded and amplified, is that the above is made manifest by the appalling appall-ing number of college graduates who are just a jump or two ahead of the police in "defalcations, "defalca-tions, corrupt practices, municipal munic-ipal graft" and the like. He is a former Presbyterian minister min-ister of Florissant, Colo., president of W. & J. since 1932. (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) |