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Show Who's News This Week II y Drlos Whrclfr I.ovrjacn NJ'.W VOItK -Vh'-ii Mi.J. On. Hull. -it V. Ciavfodl t Iks I" Mlllll-.'it, Ilia thill, Mllflll iiiniilli tviisla inn the v'ii'ls cimi out of on; i:'ii m r u f t'-r Hi Keef)i(.unn,(,un, Ul;inu,..r of Grub Rollinff lo the late. Men in N. Africa L'','-,,t C"h""-Jin; C"h""-Jin; K-n-r- nl in in llmtti Africa now, talking in i-;if'in-.t lo ki-i-ii J-Mins iinil rub ini'l iii.olirji; rolliji.; to the Ann- if.'in army tlu-ri;. Jli; conim.'in'Ja tli Middle Kaftl Seivicc of .Supply, lie j leachi-d Afiii-a uround tin; middle ol ! Jaiiijay and had a whole month of ear-.e before voik cauibt up with him. J'.i-fore that he commanded an armored division at fort Knox. The ! chances ore that in Africa he has j lost weight. For him It would be I an easy matter, because hn has always al-ways been one of our plumper men-at-arms. In the last war the guys In the trenches used to rib the SOS with pointed mention of non-fiKlillnic non-fiKlillnic huldiers. They talked that way even when the supply trucks ran Hoi-he barrages like ducks diving Into a shower of No. 9 shot. Very likely the talk in African fox-holes Is the same and with even less reason, for In these days of fluid fronts the Crawford cargo crews are as likely to find themselves alongside along-side a Mark VI tank as a purely American supply point. In such a dilemma the general Instructs the crews to say "Vol Iss!" in a loudly deceptive voice if they feel It will help, but above all to get a-rolling. General Crawford is of the army's elite on two counts. He was graduated gradu-ated from West Point. He took the best post-graduate courses, War College, 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 the last time. A captain then, he ; finished a lieutenant-colonel. This i was fairly close to par for the year j and a half course. AMBASSADOR CLARENCE E. GAUSS, starting toward bond-weary bond-weary Washington from bomb-weary Chungking for consultations, should ... .. .... , have all the On Way Here With news we First-Hand Tale of need about ! War-Weary China Cuhina the tip of his tongue. Except for a couple 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. Ke ; was deputy consul, after a while : spent at stenography in the house . of representatives. Then he was consul at Amoy, Tsinan, Mukden, and finally counselor to the legation at Peiping. Washington was his birthplace and he got back now and then, marrying marry-ing a Los Angeles girl on one visit. Maybe her preference turned him to the Paris consulate. The Australian Austra-lian assignment came later. He was our first minister there. But when an ambassador to China was needed 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 spectacles. spec-tacles. When he smiles a dimple 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 at all. TN RUSSIA a Bolshevist by any 1 other name is just as Red. Thus Trotsky was really somebody else. So is Stalin. And Vycheslav Mikai-r Mikai-r T . ? j lovich Molo- Like Trotsky and toff, whose Stalin, Molotoff department Altered Moniker f foreign af-fairs af-fairs considers consid-ers Admiral Standley's brusque ! speech, was born Scriabin. Molotoff means hammer, plainly a better way to call a man who set out at 15 years of age to break the old Imperial government. Molotoff's official biography says he was born the son of a shop assistant. That was 53 years ago. By 1905 he was a professed Marxist, and a year later joined a bolshevik group. Ten years later he was on the Bolshevik Central Committee. Meanwhile he and Stalin had met, and started their newspaper, newspa-per, Fravda, and Molotoff had been arrested or exiled thrice. Both Lenin and Stalin schooled Molotoff, and he likes to tell of this. He likes, too, to boast that he is an old Bolshevist, an early bird among the revolutionists. In Russia he is called Stalin's chief aide. He 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 Har-ry Hopkins. Molotoff 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 fore-head tops off a face more than ordinarily ordi-narily good looking. |