| Show WHO is X NEWS THIS 3 WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON anthe EW YORK england pioneered the businessman diplomat shrewdly and effectively it would seem many of her best fixers and negotiators r r best fixers f throughout t the h e have stake world have bee been n in deals men who had a personal stake in the outcome of their operations they were not disinterested perhaps but no more were the traditional diplomats who knew protocol perhaps but nothing about oil america followed with norman H davis a financier who became an effective european swing naan man under five presidents and then came spruille braden engineer and industrialist who was our ambassador at large in latin america until he became minister to colombia last april president roosevelt agreeing to act as an arbitrator in the chaco dispute picks mr braden to represent him in his own private industrial diplomacy throughout south america the husky and gregarious mr braden has proved himself an excellent pacifier and troubleshooter he knows the score in oil copper rubber minerals hides and what not and this ma braden wise serialized and parin latin diplo dial 0 diplomacy macy has made him useful in diplomatic representations at various south american conferences he has been working on the chaco settlement for the last three years in his youth he did a short turn in the mines near elkhorn mont his native town and then went to yale and became a mining engi neer 1 he was a second string halfback at yale but a first string engineer and promoter from the start elec 1 trifling ying chile for westinghouse or 1 gan izing the bolivia argentina ex corporation branching outs outi widely in south american develop ment and finance he desperately i wan wanted ted to be minister to chile but was consoled with colombia he is fotty fosty four years old remembered ia new york as the fastest and hardest working handball player around jack OB gymnasium in which he combated a tendency to plumpness creeping up on him a bit in late years he was married in 1915 to the beautiful and socially eminent se norita maria homeres del solar of chile they have three daughters and two sons their new york residence is the former george W perkins estate at riverdale rivendale on the hud son C CARL ARL J HAMBRO burly president of the norwegian parliament is in america for a lecture tour there is an interesting cutback in his career predicted at geneva in collapse 1927 he staged of league a spectacular dei de bate with austen chamberlain in which speaking for the small states he vehemently insisted that the league must find a way to restrain strong aggressors or else find itself impotent and discredited in a few years with equal vehemence mr chamberlain proclaimed the trustworthiness ot of the strong states and their humanitarian ainis aims warning mr hambro against overt restraints by the league he said along that road lies danger mr hambro was the most distinguished recruit of the oxford group movement 1935 and has since been a leader of the movement norway returning from a luncheon attended by dr frank buchman founder of the movement in geneva he told of the mystic exaltation of the company and later announced his adherence to the group although a conservative mr hambro is the president of the labor party of norway for many years he has been leading the fight of the smaller nations in the league arriving in new york he remarks dryly that norway is old fashioned she has a surplus in her budget 0 consolidated news newa reatus Feat dies es service |
