Show WHO S NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N EW YORK in europe a few 1 l 1 this writer years bears ago met a friend who had just interviewed gen ismet inona who is today turkeys key s new dicta dictator inona tor succeeding an iron man kemal Ata turk yet a diplomat who died recently hes the smartest hombre I 1 ever met said my friend he talked to me for two hours frank and honest looking me right in the eye and never holding out on anything he was charming and brilliant and he ask me not to print anything I 1 thought I 1 had a great story but when I 1 started to write it there was just nothing there I 1 saw him several times after that and realized that he was a master in heart to heart talk which left no commitments whatsoever I 1 saw cagey diplomats kissed off just as I 1 had been the man is a marvel of brains and ingenuity the small fragile deaf ingratiating general inona is the hero of the turkish army premier until a year ago when he was mysteriously benched bunched by kemal Ata turk there were rumors that he was engaged in international negotiations of such subtlety that he found it necessary to keep out of office and off offstage stage k it was in 1920 that young colonel ismet joined mustafa BIu stafa kemal in anatolia by 1922 he had driven the greeks out of anatolia and smyrna and in this period and thereafter he was kemal Ata turks chief chie f military aide he added to his laurels when at the 1923 Lausanne conference he ran rings around british and italian diplomats and won for turkey virtually its demands he was one of few men who retained the confidence of to the end helas a firm and exacting and at times ruthless ruler of the army and is said to lack none of the traditional specifications of the iron iron manit is apparent tl fisit qt ismet inona is intent on keeping turkey diplomatically liquid that he fully realizes the bargaining power of turkeys hegemony over the moslem bloc and that he probably will use this and other strategic assets in making some shrewd bargains 40 TALL T ALL austere sumner welles a deft precisionist in career cipio diplomacy is merely undersecretary ot of state but offstage off stage hes the keyman key man of a critical in sumner welles ter national ena specialist in counter and a S A relations Relation 3 policy draughtsman in whose hands a chart of our south amer american procedure is taking shape ho helped initiate and has diligently foster fostered edthe the good neighbor policy in latin america and his radio ad dress urging a get together in the western hemisphere received a good press in those countries but a bad press in germany his plea for joint defense against any threat of attack is in interesting contrast to his bis speeches of a year ago when he appealed to the nations of the world for a new world order based on justice and law he weighs the actualities of trade finance and the collective safety and solvency of the western something like a picture of a western league of nations nation S begins to emerge as the great imperialists imperiali sms turn toward the vast raw material storehouse of south america after his graduation from harvard in 1914 franklin D roosevelt then assistant secretary ot of the navy helped him enter career diplomacy in his early thirties he was high commissioner to the dominican republic the author ot of Nab vineyard a two volume study ol of that country he was made ambassador bas to cuba by president roosevelt in 1933 he became undersecretary der of last year 9 0 artor ROBERT OBERT DONAT the english actor on the uptake up take in the citadel and other films made so many unsuccessful tries at the screen seven years ago laughing at that they called despair gets him screen D donat fame test daa donat competent actor he met hard luck and was all but desperate as something always went wrong one day in what he was sure would be his last try the director told him to register despair the irony of his merely imitating despair sent him into demoniac laughter alexander korda in another room heard him sign that man up op whoever he be is said korda a great performance he had what it took and they routed him right through to fame and riches he won by challenging a homily do not despair 6 consolidated news features feature service |