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Show I s ; h s&st WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK ' By LEMUEL F. PARTON (CoLidatedFeatures-W-NU Service.) XTEW YORK. Adm. Sir Charles N ; Forbes, commander-m-chiei of the British home flee ma, be taking his current naval battles taking rather per- British Admiral, sonally. He Jutland Veteran, f -barm-Heads Home Fleet : wife wh0 wa3 Marie Louise Berndtson daughter of Axel Berndtson of Stockholm. Their home has been a salon of mingling British and Scandinavian CUSirrcharles has not been particularly particu-larly conspicuous in Britain's high command of the navy, but, by all accounts, he "has what it takes Sixty years old, in the navy for 46 years, he has been in command of the home fleet since 1938. He fought in the Battle of Jutland, winning the D. S. C From 1925 to 1928, he was director of naval ordnance. He commanded the destroyer flotilla Mediterranean fleet in 1930 and 1931 and was sea lord and controller of the navy from 1932 to 1934. He was second in command of the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean fleet from 1934 to 1936. A British friend who arrived here recently tells me Sir Charles is regarded re-garded as perhaps the best naval strategist and tactician of England, of the esteemed "bulldog" type who, unless spurred by higher command, com-mand, would attempt no too-hazardous exploits, but may be depended to go all the way through. NO RUNS, no hits, no errors is a good score for a diplomat. The runs and the hits aren't expected expect-ed in diplomacy and goose-egg in the error col-U. col-U. S. Diplomat s umn is tops. Batting Average Ray Ather-Rated Ather-Rated at 1,000 years in the state department, is America's fully adequate minister to Denmark at a critical hour. He assumes charge of French and British Brit-ish interests. He emerged against the backdrop of the Boston Beacon street aristocracy, aris-tocracy, and was known as the "beau of the beaux arts," when he was studying architecture in Paris. After short turns in architecture and banking, he entered the diplomatic diplo-matic service as a career man, serving in various posts at Tokyo, the Philippines and London until his appointment as minister to Bulgaria Bul-garia in 1937. He became minister to Denmark last August. He is a cautious, "message to Garcia" diplomat who has learned never to get out on a limb No. 1 In the diplomat's rubric. This in ' spite of an occasional frolicsome mood, as when he named his infant daughter Helen Maria, in honor of General Dawes, his former chief at London. TT WAS just a year ago that lean, A grim, Calvinistic old Premier Hendryk Colijn warned Holland of big, bad trouble ahead in which in- Statesman Colijn civ-Warned civ-Warned Holland tainly would To Be Prepared get hurt xm' less they prepared pre-pared to defend themselves. His urging had much to do with his country's diligent war preparations of the last twelve-month and today, Mr. Colijn, no longer premier, but an influential elder statesman, says Holland is ready to . make things extremely unpleasant for trespassers. trespass-ers. In the World war, the astute Queen Wilhelmina managed to save her country by a. miracle of adroit maneuvering. She might be able to do it again, but just in case, they have re-rigged their dykes for web-footed web-footed warfare, if necessary, greatly enlarged their fighting forcf. .S co-ordinated their defenses for the best possible showing a bantim- against the big sluggers. Mr. Colijn 70 years old next July is an amiable, cultured gentlemnn not g1Ve to fighting to but noi inexperienced in real fightinV Hie Political and financial fofS'wcre the savi.ro q ? muling against a younJ ifJ ava' wncn ho was lands armyHis3"1 Nethcr- East brought Sm Sn the Fnr Henry wh Sir along with Sir n e mvcd emingenCfin 2J n eRo;alDuEd0ern8,0nof H 1 0l1 coipnny. ""era Spoli5Cori ' 8tron Public act v S ZT'T- In his rous foe S bototl Z--Communist t , 0 Nazis nnd POBrom as " eeNaZ' Bn-Somitie str e,l!,aus.trnB,cfp, tonC;?1,rSSU1"Cd that bombs or no ,"7 ,pWor' nir boon loader of Hon"" 'S- Uo h:,s party. 1 ""Hand's Culvinist 5,011 t0 '"Hilary sdiool. |