The midland journal., 1943-07-09
Who's News
This Week
BY
Delos Wheeler Lovelace
Consolidated Features.-wNU Release.

SOHSoh0dLc0 GdtuA U.s. WANO As~ASoSSs
NEW YORK. = Wollmar Flip
! y Bostrom, Swedish minister to
the United States, reached the re-
tirement age of 65 the other day, but
A Sprighty Chap r;sht ne Il s,a'n,e on the
Like This Retire? Job. With the
That's Ridiculous world all
topsy turvy
and with plenty of things to worry
about elsewhere, his foreign Office
decided that this was no time to
call in a man who had made good
on a job for II years. Besides to a
nation ruled over by an 85-year-old
king, 65 isn't bit old, anyway.
Calvin Coolidge was i'm the
White House and Frank b. KEEL
i0gg was secretary of state when
the blue-eyed, ruddy checked
envoy with the build of an ath-
lete arrived from Stockholm i'm
February Of '26. AT Upsala uni
versity in Sweden, where he was
graduated in 1903, he had
studied to be a lawyer, but he
soon decided that the diplomatic
service was his forte. He was
sent first to the legation i'm Paris,
but in 1907 King Gustav called
him home to become his private
secretary. In 1913 he went to
the legation in London and was
there during most of the last
war. Just before coming to
America, he was minister to
Madrid.
At Upsala, he had been a top
notch performer at both hockey and
tennis. In 1903 he represented
Sweden in the Olympic games. He
first began playing tennis with King
Gustav as far back as 1900 and not
so many years ago he and his mon
arch won the doubles title in an "old
boys !" tournament. On his Goth
birthday, his wife snapped a photo
graph of him when he was swinging
upside down on the flying rings in a
gymnasium.
THINGS are looking up for the
= Allies on the Pacific front. Take
it from Sir Owen Dixon, Australian
minister to the United States. He
ENJOY From DorDn Wash;ngton N n
Under Heartened the 9th er
By a Visit Home day after a
trip home
and should know He had been away
from Australia for II months and
was delighted in the changes for the
better he noted in that time.
This tall, angular envoy from
- the underside of the world first
took over his job here last year
when Richard Casey moved ON
to the Middle East. He had had
a distinguished career as a law
yer and Judge and had directed
some Of his commonwealth top
war boards - shipping control,
wool, war risk insurance-be-
fore that.
Born in a suburb of Melbourne 81
years ago, he made brilliant rec
ord at Melbourne university. He won
his B.A. there in 1905 and his law
degree two years later. His law
practice mounted rapidly in size and
importance, and he was rated as
one of the outstanding attorneys in
the dominion when he was elevated
to judgeship in the supreme court
of Victoria in 1926. Three years lat
er he became justice of the high
court of the commonwealth.
With high forehead, keen eyes and
graying hair, he looks every inch a
man to hand down learned decisions.
He has been addressed as Sir
Owen for two years now. He is
married and has four children, two
boys and two girls.
+ IST Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce
- among those who have great
faith in what the Allied bombing
raids will do to lick the Germans
Hard Hitting Vet them hen = want
Backs Air Bombs peace for a
To Soften Up Nazis long time to
come. Place
him also among those who point out
that there is no ore-way street for
air raiders. It's the latter thought,
incidentally, which is his major con-
cern at present, for he is now in
command of the First Air Force of
the U. S. army, and it's his job to
protect the Atlantic coast from en-
emy planes.
There isn't much about air
combat and flying that this ath-
letic appearing, hard hitting vet
eran doesn't know, for he's been
at it long time. Since 1915, in
fact. That was the year after
he won his first commission al
West Point. He few for PERISH
ing in the brush with Mexico i'm