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...these the most notable both for mass (895 pages) and specific intellectual gravity was Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy (Simon & Schuster, $5). Philosopher Russell's History chronicles in simple style, with immense knowledge, with highly personal (and often highly prejudiced) commentary and rigorous rationalism, the rise of Western philosophy from Thales (B.C. 640) to Philosopher Russell. It also discusses great religions (Greek polytheism, Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism) and a number of thinkers whom philosophers do not consider philosophers but whose thought and actions have been important to man's mind (St. Francis, St. Benedict, Karl...
Republican Representative Bertrand W. Gearhart caused a slight flurry when he told newsmen that the cruiser Boise, en route to Manila from Pearl Harbor, had sighted a Jap task force but had not communicated its news because the skipper had been told to observe radio silence-and saw no reason for breaking the orders...
...London's Chief Magistrate, Sir Bertrand Watson, it was Case No. 24 on his Bow Street Police Court docket. To Britons it was the first step in bringing to justice Britain's No. i traitor, William ("Lord Haw Haw of Hamburg") Joyce, 39. For the purpose, a British statute nearly six centuries old was dusted off. Joyce, charged the Court, "adhered to the King's enemies elsewhere than in the King's realm, to wit, in the German realm contrary to the Treason...
...Died. Bertrand Edward Dawson, First Viscount Dawson of Penn, 80, physician to Britain's Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI; of pneumonia; in London. First British medical peer since Lister, he shocked the House of Lords with his outspoken views on birth control ("you should not have self-control when you are making love"), prohibition ("alcohol aids the digestion, brightens the outlook"), divorce ("when a marriage's main purpose is frustrated it ceases to have spiritual meaning"). He penned the famed sentence broadcast when George V lay a-dying in 1936: "The King's life...
...which might arouse the nation to its peril were stifled. But anything which could turn Frenchmen against Russia, against the 'Marxists,' against England herself, and also make them look favorably upon the dictators, was hammered home. ... In February 1936 the Führer, through the channel of Bertrand de Jouvenel, was given the opportunity to explain his policy to the readers of Jean Prouvost's Paris Midi. The military reoccupation of the Rhineland was to follow within a few days: as far as propa ganda could go, it was a remarkable performance...