Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Italian Delegate Baron Pompeo Aloisi more about Abyssinian "aggression.'' There was, for example, the preliminary incident at Gondar, when Abyssinians shot an Italian consulate guard, after which II Duce magnanimously exacted nothing more than a 1,000 lire ($85) indemnity. In Rome last week the modern Caesar was acclaimed, as every leader is who brings home really big bacon...
...ANOTHER CAESAR-Alfred Neumann-Knopf...
...novelist, has evidently pondered Guedalla's book. Preferring heroics to irony, and following the career of a man who is one of the "outs," to satirizing the bigwigs of the "ins," Neumann has wisely terminated his story of Louis Napoleon in the early '50's. Another Caesar is the prelude to the "gaslit tragedy." It is a big, colorful, shrewd novel that sticks pretty closely to the actual course of history. Conversations may be invented, but the characters are all out of the past. And Neumann's analysis of personality and motive is strictly in accordance...
...dictatorship. When he refused to sign a declaration of obedience to the Third Reich, he lost his property, including his library. His troubles with Hitlerism are very probably behind the note of passionate conviction that crops out in Le Bas' speech to Louis at the close of Another Caesar. Says...
...Another Caesar is not Neumann's first historical novel. The Devil, published in the U. S. in 1928, had considerable success. A play, The Patriot, was made into one of Emil Jannings' best cinemas. Since the advent of Hitler, Neumann has lived in Florence. Another Caesar has been translated into eight languages besides English...