The Coolidge examiner., 1938-04-07
WHO'S
NEWS
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON

By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.-Big beefy, hand
some Joseph Buerckel, forty
years old, with hard fists and
whip-lash tongue, is Hitler's grand
marshal of the
nara FIStS Nazi subjugation
to Nozify of Austria. To the
AustTi0nS surprise Oh Nazl
home talent in
Austria. he is given entire charge
Of the fusion and subordination Of
the Austrian Nazis by Berlin.
He was a poor schoolmaster who
worked his way up by continuous
and diligent Jew-hating. While less
earnest and industrious young men
were wasting their time, he was
working nights, Sundays and hoh-
days on this. his chosen career.
Against stiff competition, it took
him years to gain distinction, but
at last he came to outrank even the
illustrious Julius Streicher in long
distance anti-Semitism.
He was born in the Palatinate,
the south German territory adjoin-
ing the Saar. He was in the World
war, in the closing years, and joined
the Hitler movement soon after the
Munich beer hall putSch in 1923.
He was a good rough-and-tumble
fighter and organizer and was adj
vanced rapidly in the more overt
and violent party drives.
When Baron Won Papen was re-
moved as Saar commissioner, in
1884, and made
Sdor FoSt ambassador to
Taught Him Vienna, Herr
Technique Buerckel replaced
him. Under his su.
pervision was the jug-handled pleb-
iscite and his the exultant radio
voice which told the world that
German justice had triumphed.
The League of Nations handed
him the valley. and he became gov.
ernor in 1885.
A typically fortnight ukase was
his Christmas decree against shop
ping in Jewish stores.
If you try to get out Of it," he
said, by pretending that your wife
did the shopping. it merely shows
that an unreal Nazi spirit prevails
in your home, and you are not a
herman. but fool"
YOUNG Jan G.. Masaryk, Czech
minister 10 the Court of st.
James, had fervent belief in the
Kellogg and Locarno pacts. He once
said, They are
Czech Sees splendid instru-
Fddeout of ments of a world
Peace Hope order of peace and
stability" Now he
calls at the British foreign office,
perhaps to hint that something
seems TO have gone wrong.
He is the son of the late DR..
Thomas Masaryk, first president of
Czechoslovakia. His mother was an
American, born and reared in
Brooklyn, and so is his wife, the
former Mrs. Francis Crane Leather
bee, daughter of Charles r. Crane,
the widely known manufacturer and
industrialist. He has spent much
time in America.
At the age of eighteen. he ran
away from the University of
Prague, in the early years Of the
war, and worked in a factory at
Bridgeport, Conn. He returned
home and finished his studies, and
was the first Czech minister to the
United States in 1919.
He has his famous fathers i'm
passioned belief in democracy, and
has been its eloquent defender in
central Europe, where his country
is Horatius at the Bridge.
THE history of this age will be
l. hard to unscramble. Japan can't
take belt at local power baron
without landing on an American
stakeholder. DR..
Jops Learn Joji Matsumoto
PoUer Can warned the gov
Re Headache eminent not to
get in trouble with
American investors by Matchmaking
its electric power industry.
This would endanger investments
of $3.50 900, he contended, mostly
held in this country.
He is Japan's leading CORPORATION