The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-02


 at Versailles; there will be at least A at San Francisco. And most of them will be represented by their foreign ministers or deputy prime ministers.
 At least two well-known Prime Aiinisters-W. L. Mackenzie King of Canada and Field Marshal Jan Christian Shuts of South Africa will be present. Each holds the foreign office portfolio of his coun- try as well as the prime minister ship.
 The Big Four" delegations will be headed by U. s. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., and former Secretary of State Cor dell Hull, if he is able to attend; British Minister Anthony Eden and British Deputy Prime Minister Clement Atlee; Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov; and possibly Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong.
 The nations will rank from those giants down to the tiny duchy of Luxembourg. Delegations will come from such exotic lands as Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Liberia, India and the States of the Middle East.
 Not all delegations have been officially named. But here are ,thumbnail sketches of the chief delegates who have been appointed and of others who probably will at- tend:
 United States - 73-year -old elder statesman Hull has been called the father of the United Nations. He will serve, if health permits, as a special adviser to the U. s. delega- ton. Hull resigned as Secretary of State last fall because of illness after serving longer than any of his predecessors-nearly 12 years. His successor, Stettinius, is a A. syear-old, white-haired, former big business man who has vigor, youth fulness and an amazing capicity for liking people and getting them to work for him. He is the youngest man to hold his present post since George Washington's day. When he became chairman of U. s. Steel Corp. at the age of 37, he became known as the white-haired boy wonder.
 ,,, Great Britain-Eden is another boy wonder. Now only Al, he served his first stint as foreign minister at the age of 38. In contrast to Stet- ,tinius, he is a career diplomat whose education and entire life have been devoted to preparation for his pres ent work. He resigned from pubic office in 1883 in protest against Ne yillN Chamberlains appeasement policy. He returned under winston Churchill in 1889 and took over ms present post in 1940. Atlee, 62, IS the top representative of the Labor "Party in Britain's wartime coalition !, government. For five years prior 10 this war he was a leader o1 the opposition in Parliament. .rs1 Soviet Russia-The ". M." in Molotovs name stands for Viache- {, slav Mikhailovich. At 55, he is the oldest of the Big Three foreign ministers. He has been g lifelong revolutionist, taking part. in his , first revolution at the age Of l5 as a member of students Marxist He was first associated :, with Josef Stalin in 1911 when sthey founded Pravada, now the Conmunits party paper in Moscow. He worked quietly in Communist party councils until 1889 when he , became chairman of the Council |. of Peoples Commissars of the USSR and then Peoples Commls- 4sar for Foreign Affairs.
 Canada - Mackenzie Wing will head Its delegation. He has been Canada's P. M. for longer period than any other man - nearly l8 ,y years, although not consecutively. { In recent years his administration :. has been marked by efforts of him. F self and President Roosevelt to strengthen ties between the United States and Canada. He will be one of the oldest delegates at San $ Francisco and one of the few bach 7 elors. He Is 70.
 China-5O- year-old T. V. Soong, Harvard-educated, is 8 brother of the three fabulous Soong sisters. He is a big-business man. Accom- panying him-and heading the delegation if Soong doesn't come to San Francisco-Will be the vet eran diplomat Wellington Roo, China's Ambassador to Great Britain. Koo, 56, has served China at countless international con- ferences. He was closely associated ' with the League from its inception until its end.
 Union of South l.Trica - Shuts, ' "A, was one of the major partici- pants in drafting the League of Nations covenant. He is one of the British commonwealth's elder statesmen and is expected to be a ,s, powerful spokesman, along with Mackenzie King, for the British dominions which want to be treat ed as separate states. Shuts is a veteran military man, having won his spurs in the Boer War, and has for many years been the best internationally-k citizen of South Africa.
 Australia = Deputy Prime Mini ster Francis Forde and Foreign Minister H. V. Evatt will head the delegation. Both men are labor party members. Forde, 54, was g school teacher and electrical en- gineer until he turned to politics during the last war. Since then he has been almost continuously a member of parliament. Evatt, 50, -is cricket enthusiast and scholar