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Show lhsNews This Week By Delo Wheeler Lovelace 1 consolidated Features.-WNU Heiease. N' EW YORK.-When young Peter of Jugoslavia was hurried out of an EngUsh school after th ..-sassinationofAlexanderaninehyewars ..-sassinationofAlexanderaninehyewars Young Peter Would told he had Not 'As Soon Beyio, Beggar as King royally re. sentful at Partisan Chief Tito for maSng himself head of a home gov-"rnment, gov-"rnment, even a temporary govern-ment. govern-ment. Tito boosts himself the more easily because young Peter quit Jugoslavia when the Germans crowded in. Rather he was urged out, a 18-year-old boy, by his generals. They had turned on Prince Paul, Nazi-loving re-, gent, and made Peter king at a midnight crowning, but they felt themselves and the king too weak to buck Hitler. Peter is 20 now, bony and a bit bow-legged as riding breeches made plain when he visited the United States last year. He is a long-faced, long-faced, long-necked homely kid, not too prepossessing, but reportedly in dead earnest. When he took the midnight crown he quit breaking speed limits and general fooling around. These days he Is In Cairo, a nice jumping-off place for a fast trip home when that seems sensible. sen-sible. He could easily take a wife with him, at least a fiancee. She would be pretty Princess Alexandra Al-exandra of Greece. They finally reported their engagement this summer after a set-to with Peter's Pe-ter's advisers. Those cautious graybeards doubted the good taste of announcing the happy event while Peter's subjects were so unhappy. THE last time a Yankee migrated into British parts and tried to make everybody happy he killed off all the knights of the Round Table and had his He Would Build own goose 9-Poiht Utopia in cooked by . - j Merlin. With-Postwar With-Postwar Canada Mark Twain he might have done even worse. It was a job to discourage all Yankees, but here comes a Down-easter with a program for making another batch of Britons "the happiest people on God's green earth." The program is C. D. Howe's, Canada's wartime munitions minister, and before that the world's biggest builder of grain elevators, and before that a Dominion Do-minion cabinet minister, 1YI. P. and professor, but before that a good steady No. 2 on the crew of the Waltham, Mass., high school. After high school and Massachusetts Massachu-setts Tech, Howe got a teaching job .over the border. He returned home for a wife. But then he went back for keeps. He was naturalized, built his elevators, got rich. He didn't rise quite as high as the Connecticut Yankee, but he was elected to parliament, par-liament, was hiked up into the cabinet cabi-net and there ran the railroads, the canals and the Canadian Broadcasting Broadcast-ing system. And when Hitler struck he took over the job of providing powder and shot and related items. Now, stocky, cheerful and 57 years old, he looks ahead. He would build in postwar Canada a nine-point utopia on "the broad basis of agriculture, forests, for-ests, mines, fisheries and," believe be-lieve it or not, "private enter-prise."That enter-prise."That makes it a Yankee Utopia. That might make it werk. T ORD HAILEY, baron of Shapur, L Punjab and Newport Pagnell, Bucks, aims to prove Twain was wrong by fixing up the weather. At SomebodS. Going IZkTkI To Do Something' is the head About the Weather of a B"tish committee which proposes a series of stations' throughout the empire to tell the postwar world, postwar airmen in particular, when to look for rain,! hail, snow, heat, clouds and what have you. The baron Is Just the fellow to take on a job like that and, moreover, to do it up brown. He was for years a singularly competent com-petent cog in the singularly competent com-petent Indian Civil Service machine. ma-chine. He entered the service right after coming down from Oxford, Corpus Christi, with honors hon-ors In his heyday he made multitudes of Indian peasants prosperous by building the Jbe-' Ium irrigation project. v,e ?ed Delhi from a me pro-vmcial pro-vmcial town into the country's capi-tal, capi-tal, he rose to be governor of tie WW &nt ften f Agra a"d Oudh te kept civil disobedience a UiMahatma Gandhi under a firm For these successes he is now handsomely decorated with the seT en-rayed star of St. Michae! and St. George, the lotus and roses nf the order of the Star of India and thl only slightly less exalted elephaSs peacock, of the Indian Em ! AndM the age of 7! he is still flSl 0f ada, primed President n with fact, "siaent Roosevelt |