Word: cromeli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because they were doing espionage work against the British Government but because they were agents of a Nazi organization, controlled by the German Foreign Office, whose job was to keep Berlin informed of the doings of Germans in Britain. Only one of the three expelled Germans, Werner von Crome of the Berliner Lokalanzeiger, was recognized by the Foreign Press Correspondents Association; the other two, Franz Otto Wrede and Wolf Dietrich Langen, were working for a German news agency specializing in news of Germans living abroad. Of these Langen, supposed to be a close friend of No. 2 Nazi Colonel General...
...While Italian newshawks were filing back to London, Werner von Crome, chief London correspondent for the Berliner Lokalanzeiger, his assistant, Franz Otto Wrede, and Wolf Dietrich Langen, a German newsagency correspondent, were preparing to go back to Germany. They had been informed by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare that their permits to remain in Britain would not be renewed. Declared Correspondent von Crome: "There was no reason given. . . . I deny that the action was taken as a result of complaints of espionage." These three were believed to be the first German newshawks ever expelled from Britain in peacetime. This week...
...when he nearly went blind. At 20 he published his first book, The Burning Wheel, a volume of poems. After the War he became an art, music and dramatic critic, was on the staff of London House and Garden when, in 1921, he published his first novel, Crome Yellow. The dominant note of that book, as of Antic Hay and Those Barren Leaves which followed it, was one of unamiable cynicism over the prevailing moods and purposeless behavior of post-War English intellectuals. In Huxley's characters purpose was always identified with hypocrisy, devotion to any ideal with ineffectuality...
Lawrence was a master, despite his faults, and Wilkie was at all events competent, as were Bonington, Elty, and Crome or Cotman, to name a few others. One must remember that competence is almost a pejorative term in criticism, if connotes the damnation of faint praise. Turner was once one of the gods of Fry's idolatry, so his remarks here, though just to this reviewer, may seem to some idol-demolition. Fry recovers, however, from any suggestion of mere pique, with his laudation of Constable: "Constable, like Gainsborough, belongs to the great European tradition of design." We are thus...
RETROSPECT-Aldous Huxley-Double-day, Doran ($2.50). Fourteen hundred pages of Author Huxley's reprinted prose & verse, including Brave New World, Crome Yellow, Leda...