Word: duff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anthony Eden's stanch friend Alfred Duff Cooper, M. P., who resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty in protest against appeasing Adolf Hitler at Munich, last week roused London with speeches and press interviews on a keynote long soft-pedaled by the Government. "It would be a good thing," said he, "to break Germany up into small States...
...aims sponsored for the past eight months by the Allies. According to these the German people are being misled by a fanatic (as Woodrow Wilson said the Kaiser misled them). Let them turn Hitler out and a generous peace along the lines of European economic federation could be made. Duff Cooper's one concession to this attitude: the pint-sized German States should be "impotent but prosperous...
...Duff Cooper and received last week by an American friend. With her husband, Alfred Duff Cooper, Lady Diana spent almost five months in the U. S., visited 50 cities (while her husband gave 62 lectures), before returning in March to her home in England...
...vein. I enjoyed reading it very much, but twice I remember hurling it to the ground with rage at its prejudice, injustice and ignorance. Goebbels is running this India racket, I am certain of it. Why should at least three questions about India be asked at every one of Duff's lectures in the U. S. A.? Who sends the lecturers from India to America to complain of British rule ? The Indians are not asking for America's support, but the Germans are inciting in the dark anti-British feeling-in Genoa as in Chicago or any other...
...HORIZONTAL-Duff Gilfond-Vanguard ($2.50). Onetime Reporter Gil-fond tells with harrowing gaiety of a ten-year fight against encephalitis lethargica ("sleeping sickness"), which in her case took the form of a constant headache so painful that she had to lie down almost all the time. Her descriptions of variously officious, honest, cruel, experimental or decent specialists and the hospital experiences she had in their charge manage to be funny in spite of everything...