Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was the last in a series of parting blows delivered by the outgoing Baldwin Government. Four days earlier King George had personally telephoned his brother at the Chateau de Cande and explained apologetically that he had. been . forced not only to forbid any member of the Royal Family attending the wedding, but any British subject holding a Crown commission, which meant that such a harmless citizen as the former pilot of Edward's private plane. Wing Commander Edward ("Mouse") Fielden, was forced to refuse an invitation together with more potent officers and diplomats who were among the Duke...
...sadness. Mrs. Warfield's Aunt Bessie, Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman, bustled about the Chateau de Cande kitchens personally overseeing the wedding breakfast for the 16 invited guests who were to attend. Mail and wedding presents came in by the sackful, swamping the post office at nearby Tours. Explained the unofficial Press Minister, Herman Rogers...
...long preempted all the available cork forests, vineyards, barley fields. Suddenly alive to its danger, the Government last week sent Administrator Steeg and his party to the scene of the hunger march, and voted $2,250,000 relief money to match $450,000 which the Banque d'Etat de Maroc has already put up to buy food for the starving tribes. Distribution of free barley and mutton has already started...
Largely because the French people have never been able to take seriously a politician whose middle name they believe to be Casimir, the disorganized body of Right-minded Frenchmen with fascist leanings have found Colonel François "Casimir" de la Rocque a weak reed to lean on. In recent months a much more potent fascist has appeared in the person of hulking, bull-voiced Jacques Doriot. A former mechanic and metalworker, son of a blacksmith, his political career has been irregular as his private life is blameless...
Another thunder-clap followed next day. Roberto Farinacci, editor of Cremona's Regime Fascista aimed at one particular Jew, Baron Maurice de Rothschild, French member of the famed banking family. Boomed Farinacci: "Rothschild offered plenty of help to that brigand Haile Selassie. ... He finances all anti-Fascist movements and now prefers to live and amuse himself in Florence...