The Coolidge examiner., 1938-08-04
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON


NEW YORK.-The British lion
: y has been taking kicks from all
comers lately, but it stiffened up
and began looking a lot more her
,. aldic when the an
oFito'HeW cient bill of rights
ShotUs Spunk seemed to be in
In Armv RorD fringed. 1t was no
rubber-stamp par
lament which reacted angrily to
the army's summary action against
young Duncan Sandys, conservative
member, who had revealed undue
knowledge of air defense secrets.
The government was embarrassed
and backed up considerably.
The swift parliamentary kick
back was an instance of the latent
staying power of the British demo
cratic tradition, as the representa-
tive body ratified the bones Of its
late and great hbertarians in telling
the executive where it got off.
The row overfiows into impor-
tant political by-ways, as the
tall, handsome, loOse-geared
Mr.. Sandys is both a sOn-in-law
and political ally of Winston
Churchill who is pot-shotting the
government just now in a po-
litical nO-man's land.
There is a threat of conservative
detection to the side of the still am
bilious and powerful Mr.. Churchill,
with labor and liberal recruits, and,
according to close observers of Brit
ish politics. some important new
alignments may result.
Mr.. Sandys, thirty years old, is
still just a rookie in this league,
Sandys Is o'I,eary,s cow
freshman may not have in
In Politics tended to start
anything in partic-
ular. He is, however, an energetic
and capable young politician and
there are those who say he may be
another Anthony Eden in a few
years. Running for parliament in
1885, he was assailed by the come
ly young Mrs. John Bailey who
was leading the fight for the opposi-
tion. She is a daughter of Winston
Churchill.
He won the election in a rock
and-sOck battle and then, in the
chivalrOus Eton and Oxford ira
dition which is his background,
he married Mrs. Bailey. She,
incidentally, is a granddaughter
of the Jennie Jerome of New
York who became Mrs. Ran
dolph Churchill and the mother
of Winston Churchill. Jennie
JerOme's father was one of the
fighting editors of the New York
Times in the 1860s.
MIR. Sandys, studious and some
what ministerial, was with the dip
lomatic service until 1888. He is a
second lieutenant in the London
anti-aircraft force, a son Of the
late Capt. George Sandys.
GREECE never had any luck in
~ trying to get the Elgin marbles
back from England. Judging from
this precedent, American aviators
xU-.L pI have long fight
ahead in trying to
Sought by bring back from
u. s. FLYERS tn Kensington
Science museum
in London the Wright brothers air
plane of the historical Kitty Hawk
crow-hop of December II, 1903. Such
will be the endeavor of the newly
formed association of men with
wings.
They will appeal to Orville
Wright, who let the plane go to Eng
land in 1928, after the Smithsonian
institution had tagged the Samuel
P. Langley plane as 'the first ma
chine capable of flight carrying a
man." There is as yet no WORD from
Mr.. Wright, who lives and works
somewhat aloofly in his office and
laboratory at Dayton. Ohio.
That twelve-second fight put
him in the history books,
brought him string of honorary
degrees and gathered more
medals than his plane could lift,
but all this was marred by the
misunderstanding a b out who
few first.
He had been trained in science
at Earlham college when he and
his brother made their plane in a
bicycle shop. He continued his
studies in aerodynamics and his lat
er contribution was the stabilizing
system which has made modern avi-
alton possible. Wilbur Wright died
of typhoid fever in 1912
CTIFF- hard-boiled Gen
- eral Alexander Won Falkenhaus-
en-, German sparring partner and
coach for the Chinese generals until
cL: tu:u recently, stirs ex-
(nino WW citement in Shang-
WIN, Says hal by predicting