INFLUENCE ON WORLD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27271, 23 December 1949, Page 5

INFLUENCE ON WORLD

INDIVIDUALS RESPONSIBLE FOR GREAT CHANGES

SELECTION IN AMERICA NZPA—Copyright

LONDON, Dec. 21. The American magazine, Look, has listed 20 persons whom it considers to have had the most vital influence on the course of world affairs in the first half of the twentieth century. The choice incrudes seven Americans, twp Britons, two Indians, three Germans two Italians and two Russians. The Americans were Mr Henry Ford, General George Marshall, Mr John D. Rockefeller, sen., the Wright brothers -(given as a single selection) and Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Britons were Mr Winston Churchill and the economist, Mr John Maynard (later Lord Keynes); the Germans, Drs Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, and Adolf Hitler; the Indians, Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru; the Italians, Benito Mussolini and Pope Pius XII; and the Russians, Lenin 'and Stalin. The other two selections were Dr Marie Curie (France), and Dr Sun Yat-sen (China). In attempting to narrow the list to 20 persons, the judges, Messrs Arthur Schlesinger, jun., a Harvard historian, apd Marcus Childs, a Washington columnist, explain that they selected only individuals who were responsible for great world changes. Their list omits leaders in art, literature and philosophy.