THE TOP OF THE LIST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 292, 10 December 1936, Page 9

THE TOP OF THE LIST.

MEN WHO MAKE NEWS. ROOSEVELT AND KING EDWARD. (Special.—By Air Slaii.l LONDON, November 20. Which arc "the biggest news-making names in the world to-day V Here is a "cricket eleven" of the great picked by Mr. Hugh Bailie, president of tlie Lnitea Press of America, now 011 a visit to England: Roosevelt, King Edward VIII., HitU-r. Stalin. Blum, the Pope, Baldwin, Mussolini, Franco, Lindbergh, Joe Lewis. Roosevelt is momentarily the captain because of interest in his new prooramme. When asked why he had 110 women 011 his list, he replied: "Women have not. yet had the opportunity to rate permanently in the worlds news. (Government trends.are the dominating factor in news to-day, Baillie maintains. and thfe biggest news story would he the assurance that there was not going to be a world war for the next 10 years. "Personalities in the world news are now almost exclusively political. Theatre and cinema people have faded. Politics and economics are no longer thought of in the abstract, but are interpreted by the ordinary man and woman in terms of a job, food, shelter and the future of their children." Another shift in popular interest which has happened all over the world, he says, is the emphasis 011 peace instead of 1 war.