Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they were mostly preoccupied with the delights and hazards of freedom. Several hundred Russian, Polish and Czech farm laborers shut Count & Countess Wolff von Metternich in their Westphalian castle, organized an impromptu commune. Said one of the Russians: "For five years we watched them eat eggs. Now we eat eggs...
This ivory-tower ignorance persisted in the most unexpected places. In Sendenhorst, correspondents came upon towering, grey-haired Count Clemens von Galen, renowned Catholic Bishop of MUnster and fearless critic of the Nazi regime since its inception. Instantly the prelate made it clear that he was "loyal to the Fatherland," and must therefore consider the Allies as enemies. His uppermost concern was the spread of Communism in Germany. To him all the liberated, wandering slaves were "Russians," plundering German homes. As for the western Allies: "I hope the future will bring a time when we will all be good neighbors...
...dominions can be as uppity as so many hogs on ice. In any case, nobody knows better than Joseph Stalin that the number of votes in the impotent assembly will make no real difference. There, as in any world body, it is the power behind the votes that will count. Well aware of this fact, the British neither asked for nor wanted more votes...
Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart is more familiarly known as the Duke of Alba and Berwick. Six times a duke, twelve times a marquis, 17 times a count and 15 times a grandee of Spain, the brittle old (66) blueblood was once a close friend of the late Alfonso XIII. Last week he resigned as Spain's Ambassador in London. This desertion of the shaky government of fat Francisco Franco came hard on the heels of the monarchist manifesto issued by the Spanish Pretender Don Juan (TIME, April 2). No one doubted that Alba-"Jimmie...
Aristocratic Whack. In his Swiss villa at Lausanne, handsome, non-hemophilic Don Juan Charles Teresa Silvere Alphonse, Prince of the Asturias, Count of Barcelona, and pretender to the throne vacated by his late father Alfonso XIII, judged the time ripe for a manifesto to the people. Proclaimed Don Juan...