People: Settlers

Leslie Charles Bowyer Lin, whose father is a Chinese surgeon in Singapore, whose mother is an Englishwoman, whose small daughter (like himself) is a British subject, whose present wife is a U.S. citizen, last week awaited Senate action on a special bill the House had just passed to make him and daughter U.S. citizens. Would-be Citizen Lin is better known as Leslie Charteris, bemonocled creator of Simon Templar, “The Saint.” ∙∙ In Minneapolis 37-year-old Theodor Broch, ex-Mayor of Narvik, applied for U.S. citizenship. Under Nazi sentence of death he escaped from Norway in June 1940. ∙∙Home to the U.S. came Countess Jeanne von Bernstorff, 73-year-old widow of Germany’s Ambassador to the U.S. in World War I. A U.S. citizen since 1939, when she made a quick trip to America to regain her citizenship after 52 years, she answered a reporter who asked whether she spoke English: “You go to hell! I’m plain Mrs. Bernstorff. I’m no Countess any longer and you can drop the von, too. This is America and we don’t go in for that title stuff. … I have come home to die.”

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor emerged sleepy-eyed from a train in Jersey City at 6:40 a.m. “You’ll get your waving pictures later,” said the Duke to photographers. “I’ve been waving all over the U.S.” The Duchess managed: “Good morning. . . . Awful hour, isn’t it?” Then off to the Waldorf-Astoria, for a week in Manhattan, they rolled in an air-conditioned limousine with a gold crown on the door.