Show 77 WHO S NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON alisha EW YORK leslie hore be lisha british secretary ot of war made himself somewhat ot of a national hero several months ago when he shook up britain in the army com race to get mand upped the army ready youngsters and sent the oldsters back to their club chairs the report of his ultimatum demanding change of foreign policy is a standout in the current news there was something like consternation mong british conservatives early in 1937 when prime minister chamberlain named the incidentally jew jewish i sh mr hore balisha tor for the war post there was no hint of anti semitism in their attitude but just then certain optimists mong them were e trying to tool britain into the german orbit and there were alarmed predictions that hitler would be enraged and seek quick vengeance that come off and the new war secretary started a whirlwind army cleanup clean up and all round reconditioning campaign to the satisfaction of all hands seventy nine year old sir ian fan hamilton who had been in command at the dardanelles Darda nelles said thank god we are under a proper soldier and will not be shot sitting down he has spent a lot of time badgering his elders and still has many of them to work clever at on tes s he is only badgering forty three when his elders a brash young he ran tor for parliament his opponent tagged him as the nonentity of the college bench he nailed this on his masthead mast head thead t spoofed the opposition cleverly and romped in ile he was dispatch carrier in the war then a major a reporter on a london newspaper with con convenient vei underground pipelines to the front page and the headlines he became financial secretary of the treasury in 1932 and later minister of 0 transportation he is a demon for detail and has swarmed all over england 1 inspecting rt spec ting equipment barracks and army kitchens he is of medium stature with ro ached graying hair unmarried and given to night forays checking this or that detail of the military establishment a a A A T LEAST six times in the past arx the years have been counted out and they have always come back like john barleycorn and old conquerors king cotton now old stuff to the arrest of bar bank family on low louis v vo 0 n rothschild is reported from vienna the era which founded their dynasty was disquietingly like this one the Roma and the Haps burgs metternich Matter nich and disraeli and all the other kings conquerors and statesmen came to terms with them baron louis is the head of the house the catastrophic fall of the bank of vienna in 1931 was supposed to have wrecked them A few weeks later they were shoveling money into american securities and it was reported snagging a stray million here and there by a fast overseas play on francs an old family custom louis and his brother alphonse At phonse were living in regal splendor when the deer parks failed they had and castles g great r e a t estates faded away magnificent a art r t galleries shooting lodges a huge franz lehar chorus of retainers deer parks and a brace of medieval castles much clr of e holdings slipped away as 1 il r ubi with somewhat less than the usual family zest and acumen in financial affairs turned to a study of philosophy and the arts it is years since napoleon after austerlitz made mincemeat mince meat of the holy roman empire and even more ruthlessly dismembered austria nathan james and solomon von rothschild sons of mayer anselm founder of the line not only saved their holdings but extended their dominions to the remotest corner of europe these vast ramifications of their fortune one of the largest in the history of the world were in land steel coal ries and munitions and in later decades in oil and hydroelectric power libraries have been written 3 them one notable record bei bein nv las largent their continental money matrix has been a stabilizer a at t times it is possible that the vienna jail door clangs blanas the end of a dynasty and an epoch but not quite certain history will tell a consolidated news Feat mea Ser service vico |