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...July Britain's recently retired Chief Diplomatic Adviser, Baron Vansittart of Denham, wrote: "The question of how we are to live with the Germans as neighbors will certainly involve our maintaining a state of preparedness for more than a generation to come. But, above all, it involves the re-education of the German people and the renunciation by them of militarism and the Prussian qualities which have made them such impossible neighbors in the past. This they will never do voluntarily; it will have to be imposed upon them." In Parliament last week, Socialist John James ("Jack") Lawson cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

Over a fireplace in Sir Robert's country house, Denham Place, Bucks, hangs the portrait of an ancestor, Henry Vansittart, who was Governor of Bengal. That was the Vansittart who once sent his brother a live baboon, which the brother promptly presented to an organization both men belonged to, the Hell Fire Club, where the baboon was given the Eucharist at every meeting. Blasphemy had burned out of the family by the time Robert Gilbert Vansittart came along, as the conquering spirit had burned out of most Englishmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Victim of Appeasement | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...hostilities began. Shooting, scheduled for October, was held up until the following April because actors and technicians had suddenly become unavailable. There was a shortage of lumber for sets. Dunkirk over with, half the picture was in cans when the bombing of London began. Then the Nazis turned the Denham studio into a beacon-the point where their bombers swung toward London after crossing the Channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 2, 1941 | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...when he stood bolt upright on a parapet for 20 minutes, lighting the fuses of improvised jam-tin bombs with a cigaret and lobbing the bombs at the Germans. Also captured last week after a tank fight at the outpost of el-Mechili were Major General Michael Denham Gambier-Parry, tank strategist, and 2,000 men. Also captured in Libya, apparently while flying out to Egypt from Britain via Gibraltar and Malta, was Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, who unhappily commanded British troops in central Norway last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATER: The Other Way in Libya | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Other highlights of the contests tomorrow night will be the fight between Don Twombly, Freshman sensation, and John Bullitt, last year's University champion; Charlie D'Antremont from the Law School and Dave Pickman; and Dick Yalman versus Enos Denham. All the 175 pound bouts, featuring Bob Lerner, a Freshman, and Bill Brown of football fame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLOVE FINALS ARE TONIGHT | 3/14/1941 | See Source »

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