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...Papens are Erbsälzer, Hereditary Salters of Werl & Neuwerk, an honor which in medieval days assured them a fine hereditary income. This they augmented in cruder capitalist times by discreet ties with those Rhenish Schlotbaronen (smokestack barons) who were later to line the pockets of Adolf Hitler. An expert horseman and gentleman jockey, Franz was early admitted into Germany's select Military Riding School. Six years after leaving school he was a captain on the General Staff. Photographs of Papen taken at that time show the young Erbsälzer looking straight into the camera with a characteristic...
...dropped easy references to Huxley, Spinoza, "the ancients." "I've got 5,000 books up at my place in the country," she told the press once, "and I've read a great many of them. . . . Proust is a regular drug." Gypsy first crashed Manhattan intellectual circles by discreet fellow-traveling when that was fashionable. She made speeches for trade unions and took off her clothes for the Spanish Republic. More recently she has taken them off for France, Britain and the aluminum drive. Her publicity on these occasions has not been free of a smirk. Now the smirk...
...Gold Coast, Cuba, Spain, of the late 18th Century-exude that wasted "authenticity" of the Hollywood superproduction. Added attractions: informative data about the slave trade, some warm stuff about a Negro concubine, vignettes of convent and plantation life, a storm at sea, litigations over an estate, miscegenations, a few discreet garlic-whiffs of incest...
...believe that you have to be somewhat discreet as to the method of expression in putting over a magazine of this kind, where your readers primarily approach a given subject with a somewhat different viewpoint than we do here in the United States. However, to answer your specific question as to forfeiting your reputation for stating the facts or turning TIME'S Air Express Edition into a propaganda sheet, in my judgment there can be but one answer. You have established a reputation for unbiased news and as such you are making a valuable contribution to Pan-American relations...
...first nobody paid much attention to the Colonel's spirited but discreet lectures. Then a reporter for Hearst's International News Service got an interview with Colonel Wedgwood in Boston. According to Hearst's man, the Colonel spoke out in forthright terms against U.S. inaction. Said he: "The trouble with you Americans is that you're afraid to assume responsibilities. Your President has assumed a large share of responsibility, it's true, but why haven't you got a sensible Congress? . . . After all, this is your...