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Oklahoma's taste in governors has run to flamboyant showmen like sulphurous old "Alfalfa Bill" Murray or gregarious millionaires like outgoing Governor Bob Kerr. With the inauguration last week of Roy Turner, a well-heeled oil-&-cattleman, Oklahoma got a little of both...
Meanwhile British diplomacy, first in the person of Sir Archibald Clark Kerr (now Lord Inverchapel), who was succeeded by Lord Killearn, continued its efforts to bring the Dutch and the Indonesians together. Former Dutch Premier Willem Schermerhorn, who had blamed van Mook for dealing with collaborators, came out to Java and soon found himself discussing the situation over Scotch & soda with Soekarno, whose Mohammedanism is not so rigid that he scorns a drink...
...next. First of all, they needed someone to start picking up the pieces. National Chairman Bob Hannegan had fled, exhausted, to rest. Presumably he would resign when he came back. Aspiring successors were around, but none of them amounted to much. The chief applicant was fat, genial Robert Kerr, who would be out of his job as Governor of Oklahoma in January...
...Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune, whose Anglophobia extends to a deliberate ignoring of titles, duly mentioned it as "Ambassador Clark Kerr's" speech...
...could be lured into lunching away from the embassy or the official Hotel Bristol). The newsmen he saw most frequently were those who sought him out. Two of these were the U.P.'s plump Edward Beattie Jr. and the New York Herald Tribune's diplomatic correspondent, Walter Kerr...