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WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
N EW YORK.—The absence of sa
lon diplomacy or petticoat poli
tics in the European struggle for
a new power balance would be an
oversight by the
muse of history,
readying the
drama of the
century, and at
last it seems to
have been attended to.
Enter Lady Chamberlain, the
cleverest woman politician in Eng
land, widow of Sir Austen, obscurely
noted in the news as mysteriously
busy for the last few months in
the British-Italian rapprochement.
Several weeks ago, a saga
cious traveler of this writer’s
acquaintance, back from Rome,
reported Lady Chamberlain as
adroitly fostering an understand
ing with Britain which would
bring recognition of Ethiopia !
and a two-way split on Spain
and the Mediterranean. She has
been in Rome since November,
in intimate social intercourse
with the more important Fascist
moguls.
For many years, she has been
known as the “most perfect political
hostess’’ in London 'and has been
subtly influential in many big deals
in continental diplomacy. It was
she who cooked up the Locarno
conference, at Lake Maggiore, in
Switzerland, in 1925.
When the delegates were haggling,
she packed some hampers and invit
ed Sir Austen,
How Picnic
at Locarno
Made Peace
Briand and
Streseman to the
most important
picnic in all his
tory. In her
handsome little yacht, they disap
peared around a bend in the lake,
landed in a secluded spot, and, with
the aid of three jurists, re-rigged
Europe.
Whatever came out of the confer
ence, for good or ill, is traced to
that picnic. When she returned to
England, she was made Dame of
the Grand Cross of the British Em
pire.
She is a comely matron of six-
ty-two, married to Sir Austen in
1906. He was fourteen years old
er. She was Ivy Dundas of one
of the leading political families
of England.
In the earlier years of their mar
riage, she was credited with hav
ing coached her husband in the ul
tra-English mannerisms which all of
the great Birmingham family found
it expedient to master when they
moved to London. She is said to
have been his political as well as his
social mentor, and frequently elec
tioneered in his campaigns.
Lady Chamberlain is an extreme
conservative and is believed to have
nurtured plans for a British alli
ance with the Absolutist powers. She
has an extraordinary flair for dra
matic political stage-settings and
delicate sensitivity to political cur
rents. Italy conferred on her the
Gold Medal of Merit.
• • •
# T'HE New York spy round-up by
the federal bureau of investiga
tion marks the first front-page work
out of the G-men
as an ally of the
secret service.
An attache of
the latter told
me in Washing-
G-Men On
Front Page
in Spy Hunt
ton last summer that J. Edgar Hoo
ver’s organization, developed in
post-war years, would be an inval
uable aid to this country’s defenses
against foreign espionage, and that,
in the event of trouble, actual or
impending, no foreign country could
hope to duplicate Germany’s exploit
in sabotage, propaganda and spy
ing before our entry into the World
war.
Reed Vetterll, in short pants
when the World war started,
heads the New York office of
the F. B. I. and deploys his 75
agents in a red-hot spy scenario,
in which they score as usual,
with indications today that this
is just the overture.
Six feet tall, blond, reticent, Mr
Vetterli is a veteran of the F. B. 1
war against thugs and kidnapers, in
the bureau since 1926, in charge of
18 offices in his 11 years of service.
He was born in Salt Lake City in
1903, and took his law degree at
the University of Washington in
1925. In 1933, he was wounded in
the Kansas City massacre, trading
shots with Pretty Boy Floyd’s gang
sters.
He has participated in most of the
bureau’s famous kidnaping, vice
and bank robbery cases. He suc
ceeded Rhea Whitley as head of the
New York office on September 11,
1937. He has a reputation in the bu
reau for always having an airtight
«'ase against anyone he arrests.
© Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
Temple of Diana a Wonder
The Temple of Diana was begun
about 356 B. C. and its construction
work took more than 100 years. Its
size and grandeur made it one ol
the Seven Wonders of tho World.
News Review of Current Events
AUSTRIA IS WIPED OUT
Made a State in German Reich After Armed Invasion
By Hitler . . . The Fuehrer Enters Vienna in Triumph
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radio photo, shows a contingent of Hitler’s troops marching toward Vienna
after being landed from airplanes in the country that has now been made
a state of the German reich.
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Austria a German State
A USTRIA, as a sovereign state,
is no more. In the twinkling of
an eye its independent identity was
wiped out and it became merely an
other state in the
German reich.
“Anschluss’’ was
made a fact and the
treaty of St. Ger
main, by which this
union of Germany
with Austria was
forbidden, is just an
other torn scrap of
paper.
The German reich
_ has acquired 32,369
Arthur Seyss- S q uare miles of ter-
Inquart ritory and 6 ,732,000
more inhabitants.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart rules the
Austrian state after the enforced
resignation of President Miklas and
Chancellor Schuschnigg.
Such is the concrete result of Hit
ler’s startlingly sudden invasion of
Austria and seizure of power there.
His coup was well planned and it
was carried out with a swiftness
that demonstrated the speed with
which motorized troops can act.
When Schuschnigg announced a
plebiscite on Austrian independence,
the Fuehrer rushed his soldiers
across the border by motor and air
plane and within a few hours they
were in possession of all govern
ment buildings and strategic points.
Schuschnigg, helpless, broadcast to
the Austrian people the word that he
and President Miklas were yielding
to “brute force’’ in order to avoid
bloodshed. Then both of them re
signed at the demand of Seyss-In
quart.
Great Britain and France filed
strong protests against the German
coup, but their notes were scorn
fully rejected by the Berlin foreign
office. The British showed no in
clination to go further in defense
of Austria, and France, just then
without a government, could do
nothing because Premier-designate
Blum could not be assured of the
support of both, the Socialists and
the Communists in the chamber of
deputies.
Italy, taken by surprise like the
rest of the world, was supposed to
be in a tight place; but after Hitler,
in a personal letter to Mussolini,
promised that German expansion
would stop at the Italian ’frontier,
the Fascist grand council gave its
approval to the Fuehrer’s coup
d’etat.
Hitler Goes to Vienna
R eturning in triumph to the
land of his birth. Hitler first
visited the graves of his parents and
then, standing bareheaded before a
cheering throng in
Linz he proclaimed
the union of Ger
many and Austria,
declaring this had
been his divine mis
sion. He announced
a plebiscite on Ap
ril 10 to seek the ap
proval of Austrians
for all the acts of
their new govern-
m e n t . Moving
through many towns
and cities, the Fuehrer’s motor car
avan finally reached Vienna, and
that once proud city, now just a
provincial capital of a German state,
went wild with joy in greeting its
master. Swastikas and troops were
everywhere, and not a single anti-
Nazi dared to show his head.
Already a “purge” had been
started, directed especially against
the Jews, and all people of that race
who could get out of the city were
leaving. New laws were passed
Adolf Hitler
excluding some 75,000 Jewish law
yers and 60,000 Jewish doctors
from practice. The Evangelical
church of Austria was united with
that of Germany.
Hitler took supreme command of
the Austrian army and all officers
and men took the oath of allegiance
to him. On his progress to Vienna
Hitler was accompanied or followed
by numerous units of his motorized
armies so that when he arrived the
city was swarming with German
troops.
Nazi economists in Berlin were
busy planning in detail the econom
ic future of the annexed territory.
Minister of Economy Walther Funk
said that Austria would henceforth
participate in the German four-year
plan for recovery and independence
of foreign markets.
It was assumed that Seyss-
Inquart would be “minister and
president” of the Austrian state,
having the same status as the chief
executives of Prussia and Bavaria.
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David
Lilienthal
Insist on TVA Inquiry
IT DOES not seem likely, at this
A writing, that the administration
can prevent the congressional in
vestigation of the TVA which Chair
man A. E. Morgan
and others have de
manded. Senators
Bridges and King,
Representatives Ma
verick and Snell and
various other con
gressmen insist that
there be a thorough
inquiry into the situ
ation. However, a
showdown was post
poned for a week
when President
Roosevelt gave that
much time to Chairman Morgan,
David Lilienthal and Harcourt Mor
gan, the directors, to settle their
differences. He told them plainly
that if they could not do this they
should resign from the board.
For six hours the President tried
in vain to induce A. E. Morgan to
substantiate if he could the charges
he had made against his colleagues,
these including the making of eva
sive and misleading reports and
“dishonesty of malfeasance” in
handling the claims of Berry and
others. The chairman steadily re
fused to offer any evidence in sup
port of these accusations on the
ground that the conference in the
White House was not and could not
be an “effective or fact-finding occa
sion.”
He noted in a statement put into
the record that he had “repeatedly
but unsuccessfully” sought Mr.
Roosevelt’s co-operation in correct
ing “grave conditions” within TVA.
Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan
offered evidence in support of their
complaint that the chairman had
pursued “obstructionist” tactics.
No one of the directors indicated,
after the conference, that he would
resign. It was generally believed
in Washington that the President
desired to get A. E. Morgan off the
board and that in that case he
would make Lilienthal chairman.
Mutiny in Russian Army?
T TNCONFIRMED reports were re-
^ ceived in Riga, Latvia, that mu
tiny had broken out in som» of the
largest garrisons of the Soviet army
and that fighting was going on. The
troops demanded that the depart
ment of the interior surrender con
trol of the arsenals.
The Red army is the only armed
force in the world which does not
control its supplies of munitions. A
special GPU army of 350,000 heavily
armed troops guards the militar.'
supplies.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST,
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for March 27
CORRECTING WRONG IDEAS
OF RELIGION
LESSON TEXT—Mark 7:1-13.
GOLDEN TEXT—This people honoreth me
with their lips, but their heart is far from
me. Mark 7:6.
PRIMARY TOPIC—At Dinner-Time.
JUNIOR TOPIC—What Is Real Religion?
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
What Counts with God?
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Sidestepping Responsibilities.
The never-ending struggle of
Christianity is to keep the simple
gospel of the grace of God in Christ
Jesus free to operate in all its glory
and power, unencumbered by the
traditions and formulas of men. It
has been my privilege to read a
recent book by a brilliant young
man who, while serving as a profes
sor of philosophy in a large univer
sity, is also versed in the related
fields of theology, psychology, psy
chiatry, and psychotherapy. He has
had first-hand experience in dealing
with the problems of men and
women. With this background of
both study and experience he gives
it as his absolute conviction that
we must get “back to the original
simplicity of the Christian gospel.”
He suggests that we need to “dust
off the additions and superstruc
tures” that have been added since
Christ came to seek and to save the
lost.
Our lesson for today finds Jesus
meeting that very issue with the
traditionalists of His day.
I. Washed Hands and Unwashed
Hearts (vv. 1-6).
In the process of interpreting the
law of Moses and applying it to the
affairs of daily life the religious
authorities of Israel had developed
a mass of intricate and onerous
rules which had literally buried
the law itself and had substituted
ritualistic formalism for spiritual
life. So fond had the scribes and
the Pharisees become of these tradi
tions that they became bold enough
to declare that they were far su
perior to the law itself.
Their attack on Jesus because His
disciples ate with unwashed hands
did not refer to the proper cleans
ing of one’s hands before eating,
but to the ceremonial washings
which were said to be necessary if
one had accidentally touched a
Gentile, or something that a Gen
tile had touched in the market place.
Jesus skillfully and finally dis
poses of that question by reminding
the objectors that they were serving
God with their lips only, but their
hearts were far from Him. Washed
hands are not a thing to be con
demned, and Jesus says nothing
about that point. When the wash
ing of hands becomes of more im
portance than the cleansing of the
heart, however, the soul is in real
danger.
II. Traditions of Man Versus the
Commandment of God (vv. 7-13).
Here is the heart of the entire mat
ter, for while we may not always
be aware of it the fact is that
our anxiety to maintain human
tradition which is contrary to the
law and Spirit of God is fundament
ally for the purpose of evading our
full and true responsibility.
The Jew who was so avaricious
that he did not wish to support his
aged and needy parents could en
tirely evade that God-given respon
sibility by declaring that his prop
erty was “Corban,” dedicated to
God. Thereafter no matter how
great was the need of his parents
they could receive nothing. The
execution of this oath was carried
out to such a fine point that a son
who had declared his property
to be “Corban” could visit a sick
father or mother for only a brief
period lest he might stay long
enough to perform some duties of a
nurse and so contribute to his par
ents by saving them some expense.
Thus do men even in our day
make “the word of God of none ef
fect” (v. 13), through their tradi
tions. No right minded person ob
jects to the worthy traditions of
worship and service which are such
a precious heritage of the Christian
church. Rightfully apprehended and
properly used they are both desir
able and helpful. But we must never-
permit the grace and power of
God in Jesus Christ “to be brought
under the trammels of human teach
ers or the arrangements of human
office-bearers. The first movement
toward the mastery of the soul by
tradition is the movement of that
soul away from immediate, direct,
first-hand fellowship with God”
(Morgan).
The crying need of our day, as it
was of the time when Jesus was on
earth, is that we should clear away
hindering encumbrances.
Goodness
The general goodness which is
nourished in noble hearts, makes
every one think that strength of vir
tue to be in another whereof they
find assured foundation in them
selves.—Sir P. Sidney.
Simplicity of Religion
Pure religion and undefiled before
God and the Father is this, To visit
the fatherless and widows in their
affliction, and to keep himself un
spotted from the world.—James
1:27.
New Slenderizing Dresses
I F YOU’RE in the size-34-and-up
class, here are three brand new
fashions designed especially for
you! Everyone of them is ex
tremely smart and everyone is
designed to give added charm and
dignity to full figures. They are
easy to make. The patterns are
carefully planned to help begin
ners, and each is accompanied by
a detailed sew chart. So start in
tomorrow, and have at least two
of them ready for Easter.
Princess House Dress.
It’s a sure way to start the
day right, having a dress as be
coming and pretty as this one to
put on first thing in the morning.
It takes a woman with some
plumpness to do justice to that
fitted, long line. Made up in print
ed percale, gingham or cham-
bray, with rows of ricrac braid,
this dress will be so successful
that you’ll use the pattern time
and again.
Graceful Afternoon Frock.
An especially charming style
for luncheons, bridge parties and
club meetings. The full sleeves
make your arms look small, and
are very graceful in themselves.
Gathers at the shoulders create
necessary bust fullness. Make this
dress for now in silk print or chif
fon. Later on, in voile or summer
sheer it will be your coolest
dress.
Dress With Lengthening Panels.
The plain neckline, the slim
waist, snugged in by gathers, the
long panel, front and back, are all
beautifully slimming in effect. All
in'all, this dress is so smart that
it’s certain to be one of your fa
vorites. This design adapts itself
to so many materials—silk crepe,
small-figured silk print and, later
on, linen.
The Patterns.
1485 is designed for sizes 34, 36,
38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48. Size 36 re
quires 4% yards of 39-inch mate
rial, with 3% yards of braid for
trimming.
1233 is designed for sizes 34, 36 r
38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52.
Size 36 requires 5% yards of 39-
inch material.
1482 is designed for sizes 32, 34,
36, 38, 40, 42, 44. Size 34 requires
4 yards of 39-inch material, with
short sleeves. With long sleeves,
4% yards.
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Each pattern includes a sew-chart
which enables even a beginner to>
cut and make her own clothes.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020,
211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111.
Price of patterns, 15 cents (in
coins) each.
© Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.
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The soul of man is divided into
three parts, intelligence, reason
and passion. Intelligence and pas
sion are possessed by other ani
mals, but reason by man alon®
. . . Reason is immortal, all els®
is mortal.—Pythagoras.
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Are Women Better O
Shoppers than Men ■
GRANTING a woman’s reputation for wise buying, let’s trace the
methods by which she has earned it. Where does she find out about
the advantages and details of electrical refrigeration?What tells her
how to keep the whole household clean — rugs, floors, bathroom
tiling — and have energy left over for golf and parties? How does
she learn about new and delicious entrees and desserts that surprise
and delight her family? Where does she discover those subtleties
of dress and make-up that a man appreciates but never understands?
Why, she reads the advertisements. She is a consistent, thought
ful reader of advertisements, because she has found that she can
believe them—and profit thereby. Overlooking the advertisements
would be depriving herself of data continuously useful in her job
of Purchasing Agent to the Family.
For that matter, watch a wise man buy a car or a suit or an insur
ance policy. Not a bad shopper himself! He reads advertisements,too!
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