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...Crimean War. Britain blocks Russian expansion into Middle East, retires into "splendid isolation" from European affairs...
...book is an anthology of columns that Marx wrote for the New York daily Tribune (later to become the Herald Tribune) more than a century ago. The time was the ill-fated Crimean War of 1853-56, in which a British-French expeditionary force, after many a blunder, frustrated Czarist Russia's plans to swallow the Turkish Empire. Correspondent Marx, then an impoverished freelance journalist scribbling in a London slum, looked beyond the surface meaning of the war, beyond the imperious figure of the Czar, and saw a "barbarous" power embarked on a campaign of world conquest...
...Bones to Dog." As the Crimean conflict approached, the Tribune's London correspondent filed warning after warning to the timorous West. Marx pleaded that Russia's "ambitious, coolheaded, unprincipled, egotistical and insinuating" diplomats, piously professing peace even as Russian armies marched into Turkey, were not to be believed: "Russia only throws out so many notes to the Western diplomats, like bones to dogs, in order to set them at an innocent amusement, while she reaps the advantage of further gaining time." Russian propaganda, Marx argued, should be recognized for what it was: "Confidential hints are being communicated...
...Canapés. Except where wealthy men are in charge, U.S. embassies are often forced to serve bread while rivals offer cake. To celebrate the anniversary of the October Revolution, the Soviet embassy in Bonn last year hired the city's best club, lavished 500 guests with vodka, Crimean champagne and caviar. For the traditional Fourth of July celebration, able U.S. Ambassador Walter C. Dowling, a careerman, could afford only $287-enough to give 360 visitors a pass at trays of simple canapes and a sip of cheap German sparkling wine. In Leopoldville, where the Belgians established an Elsa...
Astonishing Contrast. By any definition, the mustache is supposed to bespeak virility. Thus it has long been associated with that most virile of pursuits-war.* German soldiers used to grow mustaches when they found their Kraft ebbing. British soldiers during the Crimean War gained a fearsome respect for their fearsomely foliaged Turkish allies, and many of those who survived proudly bore a bristle back home. Such pubigerous leaders as Kaiser Wilhelm, Hitler, Stalin, De Gaulle and Chiang Kai-shek maintained the military tradition of the brush-style upper...