Show NEWS this week by lemuel F parton consolidated features release na EW YORK it used to be that a government nailed down everything ery thing loose when diplomats from friendly states came visiting that offers offer india wll well was when diplomats filled crockery crochery in practiced international bingo the pick pocket po li tics bics of and richelieu american diplomats of today are contrariwise nobody nails down anything against them because they arent taking not anything running a sort of international bingo carnival and the stuff they hand out adds up to more than a set of dishes thus william 0 phillips one of president Roosevel ts handymen sits down in new delm delhi to figure out how much food india needs and how we can give it in in a lend lease deal of course he hopes to persuade india to shinny on the allied side for the duration but considering the well filled crockery he is willing to hand out that much mr phillips comes from italy where he did not coax mussolini t to 0 side with us but even if he failed he had on leaving the satisfaction of knowing that for muss mussolini 0 b in th the axis had turned into a picket stake tak on the sharp end of which he was sitting far from pretty india is virgin soil for mr phillips but the kind of dickering he will do is not new to him he has been matching wits with foreign office horse traders all over europe tor for nearly 40 years in 1903 with a fresh law degree from harvard he became private secretary at london to colorful ambassador joseph M choate not long ago he got to be undersecretary of state buta but a desk job of even such grandeur cramped the style of so accurate a trouble shooter so he packed his bags and went abroad again A horse f faced aced man and patient with photographers he knows everybody who is anybody in europe including laval galeazzo galeazi 0 clano ciano and von he has a wife five children and four honorary degrees in india dia patting a full stomach shortly should be urging another of these last for him |