In the Public Eye

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 100, 24 October 1925, Page 24

In the Public Eye

NOTABLE PERSONALITIES IN

THE NEWS

Mr. Cecil A. Korshaw.

That New Zealand has a strong element of right on her sido in demanding representation in the control of impure Rugby, is evidenced by tho fact that such men as Cecil A. Korshaw are giving this Dominion their support in its expressed opinion. Mr. Kershaw is now thirty years of age, and he has taken a very prominent part i;i international Rugby. Trained at the Royal Naval College at Osborne^ Isle of Wight, he gained a place in the first fifteen in 1908 and the following year became its captain. Transferring to Dartmouth, he was in the college team for three years. Soon after obtaining his commission the war broke out and sterner matters than football engaged his attention.for four long ticasons. Soon after tho Armistice it was rumoured that the Navy had a scrum-half of unusual ability, and rumour spoke truly, for with W. J. A. Davies, he helped to make Rugby history. He represented that country in sixteen international fixtures, and has only twice been on the losing side, on both occasions against Wales—in 1920 and 1922. Mr. Kershaw has gained worldwide fame as a fencer, and has been sabre champion of Britain, representing his country at tho Olympic Games at Antwerp in 1920, and against the United States in 1921. It is probable that Kershaw's active participation in Rugby has come to a close, for he is now^at sea, but he has left behind him a reputation that is second to none. M. Emllo Vanderveldfl. One of the prominent figures at the recent Locarno Conference was M. Emile Vandervelde, recognised as one of the great Continental statesmen of ante-war days. Like many other famous politicians, he began life as a lawyer, and soon became an active Socialist and a prominent member of the International. He obtained a seat in the Belgian Chamber in 1894, and had become leader of tho Socialist Parliamentary group before ho was 30. He led the Belgian Socialists in a patriotic attitude on tho outbreak of war," and was chosen as one of his country's representatives at Versailles, later taking up the portfolio of Justice in the 1920 Ministry. He has found time to be a prolific writer on social and industrial topics, and is now Minister of Foreign Affairs in a Coalition Ministry under the leadership of M. Poulct. Dr. Gustav Stroscmann. Another prominent figure at the Locarno Conference was the German representativo, Dr. Gustav Strcsemahn, who is also Foreign Minister to his country. He was at one timo Chancellor, and during that period was primarily responsible for the stabilisation of the currency which had suffered considerably owing to tho inflation of the mark. Dr. Strescmann was a lawyer of some distinction prior to entering politics, being at . that time the youngest member of tho Reichstag, and even now he is only 44 years old. In theory ho is said to bo a Monarchist, but has accepted the Republic as a fact. During the Communist rising in Berlin in 1919, Dr. Stresemann drove through the city in an attempt to alleviate tho trouble, later visiting the prisons, and using Ms influence to better the conditions which were prevailing there. Above all, ho is a patriot, and as such has always been willing to make great personal sacrifices himself, and to impose the same sacrifices on the German people in an attempt to bring about unity. Ho has always advocated* a rapprochement with England and France, endeavouring to make Germany understand at the same time her position in regard to reparations. Dr. Stresemann's efforts still continue to be a psychological factor on the mass opinion of the Fatherland. Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth. Fifteen years ago Lincoln Ellsworth, hero of the recent flying cxpodition to the Polar regions, who last week gavo 100,000 dollars (£20,----000) under certain conditions- to finance Amundsen's next year's expedition to the North Pole, was winning championships in the 1451b wrestling class at the New York Athletic Club. His trainer said that Ellsworth was as good a wrestler as any man of his weight. The adventurer is now forty-five years of age. He was born in Chicago and has had .graduate and undergraduate work in three universities—Yalo, Columbia, and M'Gill. The North Pole flight was by no means his first exploring expedition. After a considerable period as a surveyor in the Canadian North-west, Ellsworth studied animal and vegetable life in Yucatan for the Smithsonian Institution, explored the Baffin Bay region for the American Museum of Natural History, and explored the Andes for Johns Hopkins University. During the war he served in the French Flying Corps and as an instructor of American aviators in France. Mr. J. M. Kcyncs. Mr. John Maynard Keynos, the famous economist, who last week stated to the Manchester branch of the Federation of British Industries that the Gjverntncnt should begin to "organise prosperity,", recently married f : famous Russian dancer, Madame Lopokova. It is an interesting match, for the parties are distinguished in very different linos of activity, and Mr. K.oyncs eamos of a family with a sturdy Puritant tradition. His father, Dr. .')'. N. Koynes, Lecturer in Logic at Cambridge, is the son and grandson of Nonconforpist ministers; his mother's father was Congregational pastor of Bunyan's Church at Bedford! Mr. Koynes is one of the shining lights of: tho Bloomsbury group "of intellectuals and artists," many of whose views on politics, literature, and art find expression in tho pages of the "Nation." It was his book about tlio proceedings at the Peaco Conference that first brought him before the public eye, and economists have had many a chance, to shine since thnt event.