Show A NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features service N EW YORK it has been only in i 1 the last year or two that this country began to realize that the germans had done a vast amount blueprinting ways W ays of and li research aga tga nt and means of the bation work dictators his job over many V years in preparing for their world aggression devising ways and means to meet it on many fronts military and political our government belatedly discovers dr calvin bryce hoover dean of duke university who was away out in front in studying dictatorships tor ships trying to understand them and find out what to do about them dr hoover is an important member of col william J wild bill donovans donovant Don new diplomatic brain trust which recruits men of specialized ciali zed knowledge who have disclosed a timely awareness of the more or less declared war against civilization colonel donovans donovant Don title of coordinator of information does not reveal the exciting character of his bis bureau which is in reality a somewhat mysterious ideological and political scotland yard studying the origins and techniques of nazi power evolving plans to meet it in its undersurface under surface penetration everywhere in the world recruiting against the dictators some of the same psychological forces which they employed so far as the public record shows dr hoover scored a clean beat on our lavishly staffed state department in trying to understand dictatorships tor ships and to make an accurate appraisal of th their air intentions and possible outreach it was in 1931 that he wrote the economic life of soviet russia in 1933 germany enters the third reich and in 1937 dictators and democracies through the prewar pre war years of planetary complacency he was writing in his books and articles an outline of adolf hitler as genius and fanatic these studies were not phil lipics against they were searching and studious inquiries into the origins and inducements of dictatorships they now provide invaluable analyses of the nazi cultural economic military formula for world conquest dr hoover born in berwick ill III in 1897 was conditioned to patient methodical work by working on farms and railroads in his youth ile he attended monmouth college and received his phd degree at wisconsin university in 1925 when he was an undergraduate at the former school he joined the national guard and served two years in france in the world war taking part in two battles he joined the duke university faculty in 1925 becoming a full professor of economics in 1930 in the above clinical studies dr hoover does not find dictatorships blueprinted blue printed in any patterns chetal evolution they can be fended bended off if were up and at em without 1 losing 1 ing too much time but above a all 1 1 they must first be understood 0 S BRAGG manufacturer CALEB of the new plastics and magog any airplane which meets successful tests at roosevelt field was the matinee idol ra j cut records once of early day in airplanes now auto racing cuts cost of em and aviation A handsome chap rich venturesome and a yale man in 1912 he won the fourth international grand prix automobile race and was awarded the vanderbilt cup by covering miles at miles per hour in that day a mile a minute had been put down as the limit of safety for automobiles newspapers threw a fit over mr bragg passing this deadline and living to tell the tale time flivvers on in 1918 he be left the country breathless by flying from dayton to washington miles in 2 hours and 50 11 minutes minute S in 1919 he set a new altitude record of feet for sea planes helas he was born in cincinnati in 1886 the son of a manufacturer and businessman and was graduated from yale in 1908 ii |