The Coolidge examiner., 1938-08-11
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK.-England pioneered
the businessman diplomat
shrewdly and effectively. it would
seem. Many of her best fxers
and negotiators
Best Fi1ers throughout the
Have Stake world have been
In Deals men who had a
personal stake in
the outcome Of their operations.
They were not disinterested, per-
hapS, but no more were the tradi-
tional diplomats who knew protocol,
perhaps, but nothing about oil.
America followed with Nor
man II. Davis, a financier who
became an effective European
swing man under five presi-
dents, and then came Spruille
Braden, engineer and Industrial
ist who was our ambaSSador-at-
large in Latin America until he
became minister to Colombia
last April.
President Roosevelt, agreeing to
act as an arbitrator in the Chaco
dispute, picks Mr.. Braden to repre-
sent him. In his own private indus
trial diplomacy throughout South
America, the husky and gregarious
Mr.. Braden has proved himself an
excellent pacifer and trouble
shooter
He knows the score in oil, copper,
rubber. minerals, hides and what
not, and this ma
Brdden Wise terialized and par
In Latin ticularized diplo-
Diplomacy macy has made
him useful in dip
lomatic representations atsvarious
South American conferences. He
has been working on the Chaco set
tlement for the last three years.
In his youth. he did a short turn
in the mines near Elkhorn, Mont,
his native town, and then went to
Yale and became a mining engi-
neer.
He was a second-string halfback
at Yale, but first string engineer
and promoter from the start, cleo
trifying Chile for Westinghouse, or
ganizing the Bolivia-Argentina Ex-
ploration corporation, branching out
widely in South American develop
HF1n n f~xlr
wanted to be minister to Chile, but
was conSoled with Colombia.
He Is fOrty-four years old, re-
membered in New York as the
fastest and hardest-w0rking
handball player around Jack
O'Brien's gymnasium, in which
he cOmbated tendency to
plumpness, creeping up on him
a bit in late years.
He was married in 1915 to the
beautiful and socially eminent Sc
norita Maria Humeres del Solar Of
Chile. They have three daughters
and two sons. Their New York res
idence is the former George w. Per-
kins estate at Riverdale-on-the-H -Hud-
son.
CARL J. HAMBRO, burly presi-
~ dent of the Norwegian parlia-
ment, is in America for a lecture
tour. There is an interesting cut
back in his career
Predicted At Geneva. in
Collapse 1927, he staged
of League a spectacular de-
bate with Austen
Chamberlain, in which, speaking for
the small states, he vehemently in
sisted that the league must find a
way to restrain strong aggressors,
or else find itself impotent and dis
credited in few years.
With equal vehemence, MIR.
Chamberlain proclaimed the
trustwOrthiness of the strong
states and their humanitarian
aims. Warning MIR. Hambro
against overt restraints by the
league, he said, "AIong that
road lies danger"
Mr.. Hambro was the most distin-
guiShed recruit of the Oxford group
movement in 1885, and has since
been leader of the movement in
Norway.
Returning from luncheon attend
ed by DR.. Frank Buchanan, founder
OF the movement, in Geneva, he told
OF the mystic exaltation Of the COM
pany and later announced his ad-
herence to the group.
Although a conservative, Mr..
Hambro is the president of the La
Dor party of Norway. For many
years, he has been leading the fight
Of the smaller nations in the league.
Arriving in New York, he remarks
dryly that Norway is old-fashioned
she has a surplus in her budget.
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