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Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON Consolidated Features. WNU Release. NEW YORK. Lieut. Gen. Bernard Ber-nard Law Montgomery, as commander com-mander of Britain's Eighth army, is in supreme command of Allied H e's 'Cal Coolidge' Egypt con" Of the British testing Nazi Field Mar- High Command sbai Rommel's Rom-mel's second major bid for the valley val-ley of the Nile. While General Montgomery Mont-gomery won the DSO in World War I, he is a newcomer to headlines or citations in this war, having been a divisional commander in Palestine. He is known as a cautious, reticent officer, highly esteemed in Downing street, according to meager accounts available here, for his tact and skill in allaying political unrest in Palestine and in neutralizing among the Arabs the clamor for a Jewish army to fight with the Allies. On November 18 of last year, there was an army shakeup in which Gen- ' eral Montgomery succeeded Lieut. Col. Bernard C. Paget as chief of the Southeastern command. He is only 55 years old and at the time of this transfer British newspapers newspa-pers noted with satisfaction that the army was calling on its "younger men." In the years between the big wars, he was busy with staff work, said to be one of the keenest keen-est students of traditional war- ' ; fare, and became a divisional commander with the start of this war. He assumed command of 1 . the Eighth army August 18. He is slight of person and sharp-featured, sharp-featured, rarely on record with a definite commitment and never nev-er has been known to go off the deep end or get out on a limb. Born the son of the Et. Rev. H. H. Montgomery, he entered the army in 1908, and fought through World War I as a battalion major. ' AT THE Versailles Peace conference, confer-ence, a pretty Chinese girl, one' of the secretaries of the Chinese delegation, made an earnest plea to a j the conf er- A Mrs. Miniver" ence she Who's Citizen of urged it not i , , to award the China and World province of Shantung to Japan, insisting, almost tearfully, that this would open the way for Japanese aggression that would some day "destroy the peace of the world." She was then the first and only Chinese woman to hold the degree de-gree doctor of laws, and is today to-day Mme. Sourmay Tcheng Wei, ; wife of China's new ambassador ' to Washington, Dr. Wei Tao-ming. Tao-ming. Slender, smartly dressed, speaking several languages flu- ently and correctly, she takes rank with Mme. Chiang Kai-shek Kai-shek and other cultured and brilliant Chinese women who have first come to the attention of this country in the war years. She might be considered a Chinese Mrs. Miniver, who could discuss bombs from first-hand knowledge at an embassy tea party. She not only has dodged them but has used them. It was in the revolution that established the Chinese republic that this modish little lady was a bomb-toter. Her father was a high official of the Manchu government. gov-ernment. She stepped across ancient lines of class and tradition tradi-tion to fight with the young Chinese, Chi-nese, and her special assignment was transporting and distributing distribut-ing bombs. Thus aiding old China to blast its way into the modern world, she helped form the new government and then, realizing that she and China needed modern intellectual equipment, she went to Paris and took her law degree at the Sorbonne. This, she later explained, ex-plained, was due to her deep conviction that any enlightened person of today should be a citizen citi-zen of the world as well as of her own country. She now says she considers herself a citizen of the- world. There might be an idea there an elite of world citizenry, after the war, recruited by rigorous tests of humane intelligence, forming a nucleus of world co-operation, without with-out recreance to any given sovereignty. sov-ereignty. Again, like the Minivers, Mme. Wei and her husband saw their house bombed piecemeal, and dodged behind be-hind trees and rocks in the woods to avoid the machine gun bullets of the Japanese bombers. Her embassy embas-sy teatime talk about war and peace, if and when given, will not merely be academic. Her husband, who studied law at the University of Paris, and who is a former mayor of Nanking, comes to Washington from Vichy, where he was sent, n ambassador, last year. Mme. Wei speaks English with a slight French accent, having studied it in Paris. |