Word: anglosaxon
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...name was Anthony Blake, good AngloSaxon name from a good Anglo-Saxon background in the heart of suburban America. He enlisted out of high school, because he had never been a bright boy and his high school counselor thought it best that he get his military service out of the way. No one knows whether the counselor will attend the funeral. They do know Anthony was a good boy, if a little careless behind the wheel of a car, and so the lamentations have begun in the homes of Anthony's friends and family...
...first, the Red press in Paris attacked Davis as "a charlatan, a tool of AngloSaxon imperialism." Then came a thoughtful silence. Finally last week the Communist weekly France Nouvelle came out with an article carrying discreet support. Said France Nouvelle: "As Zhdanov showed, the first duty is to work for the unity of the anti-imperialist camp. We should not be doing this by first doubting the sincerity of Garry Davis." This Communist gobbledygook could be translated as: "The Davis movement is useful to us, can be more useful. The order is-infiltrate...
...failing franc creates such situations in French politics as strike the AngloSaxon with wonder. M. Briand has supplied the latest turn by switching parties while keeping his seat as Premier. The circumstance illustrates an emergency where French vacillations have provided a continuous administration in a case where the rigid two party system in Britain would have forced a break. But one cannot say that the exception does not prove the rule...
...tongue. Just so the Latin language was brought into the territory we now call France and in the nothern part, after successive alterations that affected the pronunciation, inflections and syntax, and after borrowing from the speech of the Germanic Franks, has become the French language. We sometimes speak of AngloSaxon as old English; with the same right we may call modern French Latin. We may do this with even better right in the latter case, for French has not suffered so much from outside changes as English. The effects of the language of the Franks on French were...
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