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Chancellor Heinrich Brüning dared to do last week that which no German statesman has dared since the days of "The Iron Chancellor," Prince von Bismarck...
...opposite side of the globe from Ireland, off New Guinea in the Bismarck Archipelago, lies New Ireland. Last year the New Irishmen?black-skinned, woolly-haired, bug-eyed?saw a sight they had never seen before: a young white woman. They envied her mightily because, while they had only loincloths, she wore a bright red dress. Her chief reaction to them, though as recently as 30 years ago they were cannibals, was curiosity. For she was Dr. Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist. Soon she made herself popular, by the U. S. political trick of baby-kissing and by getting herself adopted into...
Balfour Years were: 1878, when he was in at the Treaty of Berlin with Bismarck and Disraeli, as secretary to his maternal uncle the Marquess of Salisbury (then British Foreign Secretary); 1887-91. Chief Secretary for Ireland; 1902-05, Prime Minister, falling when the Conservative-Unionist party split on free-trade v. tariff; 1905-11, Leader of the Conservative Opposition; 1915-16, First Lord of the Admiralty during the Battle of Jutland, after which his cold, minute announcement of British casualties in ships and men almost gave the public an impression of German victory, created a scandal; 1916-19, Foreign...
...full length life of Lincoln from his obscure beginnings to his tragic end--told in the same penetrating manner as this eminent German biographer's lives of Napoleon and Bismarck...
...detractors: he is still at it. Says he: "I detest the historical novel. It perverts both history and fiction. My ideal is a portrait of unimpeachable documentary veracity, which at the same time is suggestive of a story." Author Ludwig has been married 27 years. Other books: Napoleon, Bismarck, The Son of Man, Goethe, Diana (a novel, TIME...