Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-12
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.-Georges Bonnet,
~ Frances new foreign minister,
has been a vigorous advocate of
Observation-Disclosures alliance.
He is regarded as
French May more in accord
Join Four with the Chamber
Pou,er Pact lain policies than
his predecessors.
With the downfall of the Left gov
eminent, the conclusion of an Anglo
Italian agreement and the appoint
ment of M. Bonnet, interpreters OF
European politics see an advance
toward a four-power pact, possibly
five-power, with Poland in, and the
further isolation and immobiliza-
ton of Russia.
The abandonment of the
French-Soviet treaty is expected
to be an immediate issue in what
is regarded as sharply clari-
flying outline of dominant cOnser-
vative policy in France and
England.
M. Bonnet, shrewd, suave, dressy,
is somewhat rakish figure, with
his hat usually on the back of his
head, but a parsonage of power and
dignity in the political forum. He
is of the younger school of French
politics, and, in that connection, one
of the best Jai Alai players in
France.
At his country place at St.
Georges de Didonne, he spends
much time making
M. Bonnet incredible kanga-
Cuts Didos roo leaps, playing
on Estate pe1ota basque, as
they call it there.
But, in craftsmanship, he is no rub
ber-heeled bounding basque. He
is rather wary and adroit fencer.
When he was appointed ambas-
sador to the United States in Janu-
airy, 1887, he brought with him a
years supply of truff1es and pate
de foies gras. He had to take
most of it back, however, as, in
July, he was recalled to save the
franc in the Chautemps cabinet.
He was supposed to have
saved it, but, as usual, it didn't
stay saved, and, in the turn Of
the Ferris wheel, which is
French politics, he was down
under and up again.
IT, =, ~ c+ hut al q
philosopher and author, in the cham
Der of deputies from southwest
France at the age of thirty-six and
a former minister of budget, PEN
sions and finance. He budgets a
few wisps of hair carefully across
his bald pate and surveys the world
warily through gold-rimmed spec
tacles.
TAPAN'S strongly authoritarian
y government, with it's feudal car
ry-over, has never fitted exactly into
any of the molds of ultra-modern
absolutism. The
Spotlight intensifying issue
Now on Jap of fascism which
Strong Man may force out the
present govern
ment spotlights several likely-look-
ing "strong men, as possible sue
cessors to Premier Konoye. !
The only one with apparently
clearly formulated ideas, and flu
ent line of totalitarian talk is War
Minister General Hajini Sugiyama.
After several years of Euro
pean postgraduate studies in di-
rect action, he returned to talk
of national renovation" ode
cadent misunderstanding"
"unity and discipline" and the
like. More than any other lead
err, he employs the standard
Technology of fascism-if that
means anything.
On May 81, 1887, he gave the diet
quite lacing and said that it would
have to behave, or
Sugtyornd ''we will dissolve
Tells Diet it," Since he was
fo Rehnye then a member of
the ruling military
triumvirate, this was no casual edi-
torial 1--WE"
While he is ffty-eight years old,
he hits big-time politics with a
strong momentum, not contender
for high place until 1886, and hence
not track-sore, like some of his ri
walls. He did not become general
until 1886, after the army revolt
early in that year. He had been
vice-minister of war and head of
the military air force.
His heavily underslung face, rest
ing, reckless, on heavy torso, is
symmetrical, with one eyebrow al
ways cooked, one side watchful and
the set of a Benda mask of a dicta-
tor. He is of the army caste, gradu-
ated from the national military col
lege. He represented Japan at the
1926 disarmament conference at
Geneva, remaining in Europe for
several years thereafter.
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