Word: britten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ROAD TO GLORY-F. Britten Austin -Stokes...
Last fortnight, Frederick Britten Austin, an oldtime romancer, added to the 40,000-odd books that have been written about Napoleon a volume, ''a novel and not a history," dealing with the four critical months of the First Italian Campaign. Since its details are historically accurate, and since the author's characterization of Napoleon as an individual is monotonous, The Road to Glory is most interesting in its accounts of battles, of strategy and the arts of war. When Mr. Austin's Napoleon plans a flank or breaks all the rules by storming a bridge...
...Aquitania's Captain Diggle as commodore in 1931. Last month, he, too, reached the age of retirement, and Cunard White Star officials looked around for a successor. Last week few seafarers were surprised when they chose for the job of commodore that salty old mariner Sir Edgar Theophilus Britten, longtime skipper of the Berengaria. Aide-de-camp to George V, who knighted him at a special investiture last year. Sir Edgar was particularly proud last week because as Britain's No. 1 sailor he is now certain to command her No. 1 ship, Queen Mary, when that...
...Commander Britten, as commodore, goes a $500 annual bonus and the prized burgee, a red flag with two tails and a golden lion in the centre. He came very near missing both the bonus and the burgee. Last November when he reached the age of 60 he was supposed, like all Cunard skippers, to be retired on half-pay for three years, to be pensioned thereafter for life. In line for both bonus & burgee was the Mauretania's Captain Reginald V. Peel, who last week was transferred to the Olympic to succeed Captain John W. Binks, retired (TIME...
Thus after some secret squabbling it was agreed recently to restore the Cunard age limit to 63. White Star masters still retire at 60, but they are better paid, and have no kick. Some three years from now Commodore Sir Edgar Britten will go to the modest head office of the Cunard Line at Pier's Head, Liverpool. There, with appropriate ceremony, he will hand over the burgee personally to his successor. That, according to indications last week, will be the Olympic's Captain Peel...