Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workers, the woolen-textile industry 40,000. The proposal raised many carefully muffled objections from factory owners. How would the pools work? Wouldn't the "nucleus" factories have a decided jump on the others when peace came? Wasn't it all Fascistic? But the average Briton-on-the-street was encouraged. Though he may have no detailed notions on the subject of public v. private control, he is fervently committed to the idea that private property as well as persons should be subject to conscription in the Empire's emergency. Last week the Briton-on-the-street...
...monocle-wearing 1st Marquess of Willingdon, super-dignified Governor General of Canada (1926-31) and Viceroy of India (1931-36), is just about the last Briton anyone would expect to organize a fashion show. But the Marquess recently returned from an exploratory trade mission in South America and it so happens that beauteous, tawny-toned Miss Rosemary Chance, who models clothes for swishy London photographers, is the Marquess' niece. Last week under his august sponsorship, and with the active cooperation of Their Majesties, Miss Chance and 17 other 100% British mannequins prepared to sail on a fashion tour...
...Negus Goes Back. No one can be so persuasive with the noble savage as the sophisticated Briton. Instead of whipping him into line as the Italian does, he convinces the native that his own profit is at stake with the British cause. Ever since the Italians took Ethiopia, Britons have nursed the Negus, Haile Selassie, with convincing tenderness. Not long ago, when the British began to resurge in Africa, he flew from Britain toward his native land to start beating his war drum (his drum, he says, has a different tone from that of all other Ethiop chiefs; the blacks...
...anyone but the most ardent Jew-baiter, Lord Haw-Haw's Twilight Over England is interesting only for its preface. There William Joyce (whose name has been Germanized to Fröhlich) puts his imprimatur on the fact that his father was an Irishman, his mother a Briton, himself a New Yorker. Born in 1906, educated by Jesuits in Ireland, Joyce became a Fascist in 1923, joined up with comic-strip Dictator Mosley ten years later. Twice arrested for assaulting fellow citizens in political brawls, Joyce took it on the lam for Berlin just before war was declared...
...year 1940 found the man, as well as the man the year. It found him speaking, not only as a Briton, but as an American, taking his words from Oscar Hammerstein and Edna Ferber: "These two great organizations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage. For my own part, looking out upon the future, I do not view the process with any misgivings. No one can stop it. Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along...