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...Harvardman "Billy" Phillips, scion of a wealthy New England family, entered the U. S. diplomatic service as private secretary to the venerable Joseph H. Choate, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James. By reason of tact and independent means. Careerist Phillips became successively First Secretary of the Embassy in London, Minister to The Netherlands (1920). Ambassador to Belgium (1924), first U. S. Minister to Canada...
...which in the main describes England's nimble maneuvering while slipping the noose around Italy's neck. For me it has crystallized into convictions many things which up to now have been only impressions - namely that: 1 ) Mr. Eden is an overly young and ambitious careerist. 2 ) That England, whilst casting pious eyes Heavenward, seeks to have the League pull her own imaginary chestnuts out of the fire. 3) That to duck a "possible" conflict of English-Italian interests in the Red Sea area 30 years from now, she is right now, today, willing to take...
...Geneva a decision was handed out on the original Italo-Ethiopian armed clash at Ualual (pronounced walwal), the No. 1 specific causus belli. The arbiter, Dr. Niccolas Socrate Politis, a big-eared, beady-eyed little Greek Diplomat who for years has been a pushing League careerist, decided solemnly that "from an international standpoint" neither Italy nor Ethiopia was to blame for that bloody encounter in which 32 Italians and 107 Ethiopians were killed...
According to Chancellor Hitler he was and is the champion of the career Reichswehr generals and President von Hindenburg. The nefarious plotters, he said, included onetime Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher, Reichswehr careerist par excellence, Captain Roehm and "a foreign diplomat." Simple Storm Troopers, declared the Chancellor, knew nothing of this plotted coup against the Reichswehr. They naively supposed that what was wanted was a "new and in this case a bloody uprising?'The Night of the Long Knives'?as it was gruesomely described...
...MARTIXO & OTHER STORIES-William Faulkner-Smith & Haas ($2.50). Successful authors rarely make the mistake of writing too much. Ernest Hemingway, whom unfriendly critics call a careerist, has yet to write an obvious potboiler. F. Scott Fitzgerald has schooled his readers to make a distinction between his sacred and profane work (TIME. April 16). After Sanctuary, the macabre literary sensation of 1931, William Faulkner's first editions became collectors' items. But last week, with the publication of his Dr. Martino & Other Stories, it began to look as though Author Faulkner's market might soon reach saturation point...