Evening star., 1933-05-11
FOREIGN LEADERS
CATCH j. S. PACE
Many Talk With Roosevelt
Who Have Records of
Achievement at Home.

BY the Associated Press.
Premiers. ministers Of finance and
other foreign statesmen have been re-
viewing the worlds economic ailments
30 speedily at the White House that
Washington is hard put to keep count
of the celebrities dashing in and out.
All the foreign spokesmen have caught
the pace OF the Roosevelt admmlstra-
ton and talked their problems over IN
a hurry. Macdonald, Herriot, Bennett,
Lebreton, Jung and Schacht-the rep
resentatives received so far-au nave
proved themselves masters OF preVity
and what observers term plain speak.
ing" HerrioA. the former premier OF
France, was the only one OF Lne SiA
who was psying his first visit 10 WASH WASH
ington. Bat before the CHEEKY, rugged
son of Lyon had completed his WASH
ington stey. newspaper men and ON.
cials with whom he was thrown seemed
to feel they always had known him.
He 'new little English and seldom
tried 20 speak it, but he made trlenos
everywhere ne went, regardless OF IAN
guage." And 50 great was his energy
that, within three days he covered more
of WASHINGTON than the average tourist
does in a week, as we'll as devoting hours
daily to economic olScuSSlCtiS.
Prime Ministers Differ.
Two prime ministers were perhaps
never more unlike than Macdonald OF
Great Britain and Bennett OF Canada.
The sturdy Scot who heads the Brit
fsh government seems essentially an
evangelist. For 40 years this paclrSt
leader has preached the doctrine tnat
reason will cure all the ills OF society;
His speeches and interviews In general
reflect this view. He is essentially an
1dealist, but an ideallst who mas seen
many Of his dreams come true IN tne
changes his Labor party has prougnt
about for the improvement OF the con-
ditions of the masses.
Bennett is a man of business, given 10
quoting the Scriptures at times, but
without evangelical emotionalism He
is a conformist, a conservative in every
vay. His wardrobe is perfect. He does
not have the warm common touch OF
the two famous Socialists, Macdonald
and Herriot
Guido Jung, the Mussolini spokesman,
Is a Sicilian-born banker, but blue.
eyed and fair-skinned, unlike most OF
his people in the south of Italy. He
speaks careful scholarly English. HIS
humor and quick smile won him many
new 1rleQOS III WdS SIllSUOil "llcAC Az
already had wide acquaintance
through residence here in connection
with debt funding IL years age.
DR.. Tomas A. Lebreton. Argent1nas
chief spokesman, tall, dignified, gray
haired diplomat and economist, Is the
sort of man who is at home In any
world capital. He represented his coun-
try here as Ambassador before going to
Paris, and devoted much OF his time 10
conferences in the Department OF Com
merce and Department of Agriculture
with experts familiar with Argentlnas
wheat and beef problems.
An Effective Pleader.
Hjalrnar Schacht banker spokesman
for Haler, has passed 80 years OF his
life vnth boards of directors, and the
training has made him an effective
plea1ar. His English is excellent and
he sG,eaks with the bluntness and direct
mes of business man.
He has battled with currency prob
lens in Germany for years, and argued
50 much abroad for Germany's release
from treaty handicaps that he is far
more aggressive in his manner than his
brother banker from Italy.
DR.. Schacht probably knows the
United States and the American people
better than any of the other foreign
spokesmen. with the exception of Ben
nett and Macdonald.
Two years ago he spoke in so Amer
lean cities from the Atlantic to the Pa
ciflc on Germany's unhappy plight and
predicted the end of reparations pay
ments.
His parents lived in the United States
for years before he was born. As a
child he learned English from them
and was inspired by his father to make
a study of American history and busi-
ness