People, Jun. 3, 1940

PEOPLE

When Alexander Loudon, Netherlands Minister to Washington, heard reports that his countrymen were angry with his Queen for fleeing to Britain, he indignantly ejaculated: ''The fate of the former Chancellor of Austria gives an idea of what might have befallen Queen Wilhelmina. Of what use is Dr. Schuschnigg to Austria now?"*

Chosen ''best developed and proportioned amateur athlete'' at a weight-lifting contest in Manhattan, John C. ("Mr. America") Grimek posed with his trophy, glowingly flexed his mighty biceps, triceps, quadriceps.

Connecticut's Representative James A. Shanley told the House that Benjamin Franklin had envisioned...

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