Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-31
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Consolidated Features -wNU Service.)
NJ EW YORK.-In 1922, when q
' daughter was born to the Grand
Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg
there was confusion and embarrass-
Caesar Received nsIsca bs.
Bare Dues From cause no
Tiny Luxembourg wneTe IN w tns
there a gun with which to salute
the royal newcomer. That was one
instance in which the League of Ma
tons had fulfilled its obligation for
the progressive disarmament of Eu-
rope. Never would Luxembourg
menace the peace of the continent.
The French calamity rushed in a
IS, with a crew, and the baby was
given a thunderous welcome.
Today the Grand Duchess
Charlotte, her husband, Prince
Felix of Bourbon-Parma and
their six children are safe in
France, fleeing guns which end
lives rather than acclaim new
life. The terror came in the
night, after II years Of peace
full housekeeping, in which the
grand duchess had reared her
children, played the piano and,
being a fluent linguist, had kept
abreast Of French, German and
English literature. She has al
ways said that talk of war and
politics was distasteful to her.
As the ruler Of her tiny princi-
pality she discharged her du-
ties of state with care and dill
gence.
At the end of the World war,
Charlotte expressed extreme dis
taste for the Germans. Her elder
sister, Marie Adelaide, was COM
PEELED to retire as ruler, on account
OF her pro-German sympathies and
Charlotte was elected in plebiscite
which continued the last grand
duchy in Europe, as against a re-
public.
She is tall and handsome, a
years old, of the House of Mas
sau, also the House of Queen
Wilhelmina of Holland, the rich
est house in Europe. Luxem-
bourg is a land of Millet land
scapes and haunted castles. The
grand duchess has traversed it
mainly on horseback, riding
side-saddle. Here the new saw
agery finds shining mark of
age-old decency and simplicity.
Il ONWARD LESLIE BURGIN, who
- recently retired as British min
lister of supply, knows Sanslrit and
six or eight other languages, and
NeU Member of sonbical ee
British Cabinet says. He
Stiff Technocrat t souia explain
his critics said he wasn't much help
in fighting it. Replacing him is the
one-time grocer's boy, Herbert Nor
rlson, who quit school when he was
IL. Mr.. Morrison, who for the last
nine years has been lambasting the
tory government for fumbling and
faltering, is the only dash of new
blood in the re-made cabinet. A
conservative Labor leader, who in
1884 rushed the last of the left-wine-
ers out of the movement, he has
been variously appraised. One Brit
lsh friend tells me that ''he is an
other Ramsay Macdonald, ham,
strung by political ambition" An
other, equally credible, tells me he
is a vigorous and intelligent public
leader who will greatly strengthen
the cabinet.
The son of a laborer, he was
grocer's boy, elevator operator,
travelling salesman, telephone
operator, and secretary Of the
London Labor party at IS q
week. When he was a small
boy, a phrenologist, taking his
last six-pence for a fee, told
him he would one day rule Eng
land. He had heard about Dick
Wilmington and laughingly tells
the story when someone suE-
gests that he may be prime
minister. 1t Is almost certain
that he will II England has an
other Labor government.
Significantly, he has contended that
England must be more hospitable
to conveyor-belt production, in both
war and peace, if it expected to
meet competition. The Germans
long have been in line-production Of
planes, while the British have chung
to hand-craft and quality-tradition-
ally. Judging from Mr.. Morrison's
dossier of the last few years, he