Word: biarritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second source of the Protocols is an economic romance entitled Biarritz, written in 1868 by Hermann Goedsche, a German who used the pen name of Sir John Retcliffe. As a melodramatic interlude in his book Goedsche pictured a secret assemblage of the "Elect of Israel," gathered in a Prague cemetery around the tomb of a mythical "Holy Rabbi." The gathering plots the destruction of the world much as do the Elders in their Protocols. Goedsche's notion, besides inspiring the author of the Protocols, lived on in its own right. In 1893 German editors reported it as the authentic speech...
...good as his word, Prince Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg turned up in Manhattan to deny that he had been on a Biarritz bed with Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and help Mrs. Vanderbilt regain her little daughter Gloria (TIME, Oct. 8). Said he: "It does look as if there is something very dirty back of all this." Demanded Mrs. Vanderbilt's brother, Harry Hays Morgan Jr., who had arrived from France a few days before: "He's a real prince, eh. what, to come all this way?" Besides Brother Harry, the prince found waiting to testify for Mrs. Vanderbilt...
Less backward about the unpleasant details of Mrs. Vanderbilt's life was Gloria's nurse. When the trial was transferred to open court Nurse Keislich told of peeking through a door with Mrs. Morgan one night at Biarritz, seeing Prince Friedrich von Hohenlohe in Mrs. Vanderbilt's bedroom. Concluded Nurse Keislich triumphantly: "He had on pajamas and she had on night clothes...
...became THE Mrs. Simpson last month at Biarritz where His Royal Highness welcomed her as she arrived, carried her suitcase out of the railway coach...
...while still a young man. He devoted his life completely to his newspaper, spent nearly all his waking hours in his incredibly ornate office, denied himself to practically all callers except his editors. Past 60, of nervous temperament, he lives nearly half the year at his French estate near Biarritz. On his transatlantic trips he customarily takes a large party of relatives, and for the sake of his diet, a cow. The cow makes the round trip but must be sacrificed in sight of her native land because of Argentina's rigid quarantine against all imported cattle. Don Ezequiel...