The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-02
Who's News
This Week
Delos Wheeler Lovelace
Featdres.-wNU Release.

NEW YORK.-When Maj. Gen.
Robert w. Crawford talks in
earnest, his thin, small mouth twists
and the words come out of one cor
Keeps Guns, Gas, manner ms ar of Of
Grub Rolling to the late,
Men in N. Africa great Conan.
The gener-
al is in North Africa now, talking in
earnest to keep guns and grub and
gasoline rolling to the American
army there. He commands the
Middle East Service Of Supply. He
reached Africa around the middle of
January and had a whole month of
ease before work caught up with
him. Before that he commanded an
armored division at Fort Knox. The
chances are that in Africa he has
lost weight. For him it would be
an easy matter, because he has al
ways been one Of our plumper men
alarms.
In the last war the guys in the
trenches used to rib the SOS
with pointed mention of non
fighting soldiers. They talked
that way even when the supply
trucks ran Boche barrages like
ducks diving into . shower of
No. 8 shot. Very likely the talk
in African f0x-h0les is the same
and with even less reason, for
i'm these days Of fluid fronts the
Crawford cargo crews are as
likely to find themselves along
side Mark vi tank as purely
American supply point. In such
a dilemma the general instructs
the crews to say "Vot iss!" in a
loudly deceptive voice il they
feel it will help, but above all
to get a-rolling.
General Crawford is of the army's
elite on two counts. He was gradu-
ated from West Point. He took the
best postgraduate courses, War Col
lege, Command and General Staff
school, He is a New Yorker, 81
years old and was three years out
of West Point when we went to war
the last time. A captain then. he
finished a Northumberland. This
was fairly close to par for the year
and half course.
A AMBASSADOR CLARENCE E.
GAUSS, starting toward bond
weary Washington from bomb-weary
Chungking for consultations, should
On Way Here With n nave " an " .n e
First-Hand Tale of need about
War-Weary China t ! ! !. on . !,
his tongue. Except for a couple of
turns in Paris and Australia, he has
served all his diplomatic career
there, and his career runs back to
1907.
Shanghai was his first post. He
was deputy consul, after a while
spent at stenography in the house
of representatives. Then he was
consul at Annoy, Tsinan, Mukden,
and finally counselor to the legation
at Peiping.
Washington was his birthplace and
he, got back now and then, marry
ing. a Los Angeles girl on one visit.
Maybe her preference turned him
to the Paris consulate. The Austria
liam assignment came later. He was
our first minister there. But when
an ambassador to China was need
ed two years ago he packed up
and went back to his old stamping
ground.
He has been a quiet ambassador.
He has lean, quiet look and a
shrewd one too, behind neat spec
tacles. When he smiles q dinple
that is practically sinkhole appears
in his right cheek. This is because
he smiles so much more with the
right side Of his sharp mouth. The
effect, though this description may
make it seem otherwise, isn't bad
at all.
IN RUSSIA a Bolshevist by any
! other name is just as Red. Thus
Trotsky was really somebody else.
So is Stain. And Vycheslav Mikai-
-, -, lovich Molo-
LaRe ATotsRy ana toff, whose
Stain, Molotof departm emit
AH.~.J Mor;L.r Of foreign af-
fairs consid-
ers Admiral Standley's brusque
speech, was born Scriabin. Molotoff
means hammer, plainly better way
to call man who set out at Is years
of age to break the old Imperial
government.
M0lotoff's official biography
says he was born the son of a
shop assistant. That was So
years ago. BY 1905 he was a
professed Marxist, and year
later joined a bolshevik group.
Ten years later he was on the
Bolshevik Central Committee.
Meanwhile he and Stain had
met, and started their newspa-
per, Pravda, and MolotoM had
been arrested or exiled thrice.
Both Lenin and Stain schOoled
Molotoff, and he likes to tell Of
this.