Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horrors perpetrated in the native quarters of these cities there was just one oasis of succor for Chinese, the "safety zone." At Shanghai year ago a square-bearded, black-robed, one-armed French Jesuit, Father Jacquinot de Besange, originated the safety zone scheme. Colorful, 60-year-old Father Jacquinot, aristocrat by birth, prevailed upon Chinese and Japanese military heads to keep the Nantao area, the old native city next the International Settlement, free of fighting and bombardment. This area, dubbed the Jacquinot Zone, sheltered 250,000 refugee Chinese. Last week, 100,000 of them still huddled there...
Though the U. S. has been his winter home for many years, he has never applied for U. S. citizenship, considers himself a permanent Russian refugee. A mournful-visaged, crop-headed aristocrat, who was dispossessed of his Russian estates by the revolution of 1917, he is even sicker of Russia's present government than of his besetting Prelude. Asked recently what kind of government would attract him back to Russia again, Rachmaninoff replied: "A better...
...Prime Minister thus occupied himself, the Empire had opportunity to pass judgment on how the House of Chamberlain has served it politically for more than 60 years. Each of three outstanding Chamberlain Statesmen has been not the first aristocrat, not the first proletarian, but perhaps the first progressive Middle-Class leader of his time. Father Joseph ("Old Joe") Chamberlain who died of a stroke at 77 in 1914; Elder Son Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., who died of a stroke at 73 last year; and Half-Brother Neville Chamberlain, who is 69-each of these three, after years of experience...
...aristocrat himself, Edouard Daladier, son of a humble Provencal baker, was a professor of history and geography before he entered politics. As the Senate and Chamber rose last week, to reconvene November 16, the Premier went to work on a sweeping program of economic, fiscal and defense measures which must now be rushed to make the Republic as strong as possible against "new"-or "renewed"- Friend Germany...
...British Labor movement, never militantly class-conscious and just plain anxious not to fight, was this week-as usual-the despair of those British forces which would have liked to ashcan Stanley Baldwin, would now like to ashcan Neville Chamberlain. It was no worker but an especially gilded British aristocrat, the husband of Mayfair's glamorous Lady Diana ("The Virgin in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle") Duff Cooper, who was first in London to take up potent cudgels against the Prime Minister (see p. 19) by resigning from the Cabinet...