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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harmonious Feeling. Lean, long-legged Noel Haviland Field was born in London of an English mother and an American father. In 1920 he came to the U.S. with his German wife Herta, went to Harvard. In the early '30s he worked for the State Department's Western European section. In 1936 he switched to the disarmament section of the League of Nations in Geneva. Herta, it was rumored, did not like...
...reached the end of her prison term at Landsberg. She had, it seemed, managed to keep busy during her stay in stir. She declined to discuss the bastard child to whom she gave birth two years ago in prison, but showing off her fairly fluent English, she told reporters that she had been writing her memoirs and would have "quite a bit to say about the Americans and the Germans." Reflecting on these lines, Use grew shrill during her interview and accused the press in general of "making money by telling a pack of lies" about her. "Go away...
...Lake Success, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinslcy found something that Russians and Americans have in common. Switching briefly from his own language to English to make a quotation, he told a U.N. committee: "I trust you will excuse my barbarous English, but it is well known that English pronunciation often cannot be mastered, not only by Russians, but also by the Americans...
...Sparkle. Burdick had expected that debates at the Oxford Union would be brilliant occasions in which "wildly precocious youths, their eyes firmly fixed on the main chance in Parliament, debate with cruelly deflating epigrams and puncture windy arguments with sly thrusts." The union would be a "symbol of English upper-class intellectual ability; disenchanted, shrewd, sophisticated, always witty." Actually, he decided, the union was full of stuttering youths, "red-faced with effort ... It is not witty. It does not sparkle...
Freedom's Onions. Americans' "coarse familiarity, untempered by any shadow of respect," Mrs. Trollope decided, might serve as an object lesson to all Europeans who prated about republican "democracy" from a safe distance. "The theory of equality may be very daintily discussed by English gentlemen in a London dining room, when the servant, having placed a fresh bottle of cool wine on the table, respectfully shuts the door, and leaves them to their walnuts and their wisdom; but it will be found less palatable when it presents itself in the shape of a hard, greasy...