Word: aristocratism
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Director of the far-flung diplomatic machinery which tackles this job is a tough aristocrat of 58-a tall, big-boned man with a high forehead, clear, slightly myopic eyes, a firm chin, a sensitive mouth. He was christened Edward Frederick Lindley Wood. Now he is Viscount Halifax, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of His Majesty's Government for the past 23 momentous months of world affairs...
...Viceroy and Governor General of India. His sole qualification for that job seemed to be that his grandfather, Sir Charles Wood (the first Lord Halifax), had been Secretary of State for India. Actually his best qualification, as events proved, was that he was a charming, quiet, high-minded British aristocrat...
...huntin', shootin' and fishin' aristocrat of old England is Esme Ivo Bligh, 9th Earl of Darnley, a product of Eton and King's College, Cambridge, a major in the R.A.F. right through World War I. Last week he startled the Empire by rising in the House of Lords to urge that Great Britain should try to make with Germany an immediate peace without victory...
...worst of them, Charles Francis Stocking's Out of the Dust (Maestro, Chicago, $2.75), an American in Germany huffs & puffs through an interminable, blowhard melodrama. Frances Parkinson Keyes's The Great Tradition (Messner, $2.50) pictures in drawing room prose the democratic gropings of a German-U. S. aristocrat in Germany and revolutionary Spain. A cut above them is W. Townend's Rescue of Captain Leggatt (Morrow, $2.50), naively melodramatizing the enmity and brotherly reconciliation of a British and a German sea captain...
...year ago that Prussian aristocrat, Nazi Finance Minister Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, was given the highly congenial task of plucking the Jews of Germany of $400,000,000, one-fifth of their estimated wealth. This capital levy was decreed by Economic Four-Year Plan Commissioner Field Marshal Goring as "punishment" for the assassination in Paris of German Embassy Secretary Ernst vom Rath by one Herschel Grynsz-pan, a young Polish Jew (TIME...