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...Geneva last week the Clark Gable of the League, romantic in his open-throated tennis shirt and Eton blazer at tea time, remained Captain Anthony Eden. This handsome young British Minister for League of Nations Affairs has been expertly cast by His Majesty's Government to play a role of popular idealism, Empire unselfishness and British solicitude for the Negro underdog. Last week "Mr. Eden," as the League's spruce Captain insists on being called, kept the Committee of Thirteen, the Committee of Six and all the other League organs created to deal with Italy & Ethiopia busy heading...
...Victoria, King Edward and King George is the new Governor General put forward by Mr. Lyons last week, soldierly Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven, brother of the ninth Baron Ruthven whose Scottish title dates from 1487. Sir Alexander was born in George Windsor's name town, Windsor, schooled at Eton across the Thames, decorated by Queen Victoria for bravery as a camel corps commander in the Sudan, and sent to Australia by King Edward as Military Secretary to its Governor General in 1908. Desperately wounded at Gallipoli, he received the D. S. O. from King George, went out as Governor...
Frantically popular is Adolf Hitler with millions of Germans but not with the aristocratic Student Korps. These correspond at German universities to the superior English youths who have been to Eton. Last week a proud array of Old Heidelberg's primest campus snobs, the Saxo-Borussian Korps, trembled before a State prosecutor who charged them with the following high misdemeanors...
Chicagoans first began to like Marshall III in 1917 when, after spending most of his youth at Eton and Cambridge, he returned to enlist as a buck private in the U. S. Army. They liked him even more when he returned from France a cavalry captain and, despite unlimited capital and numerous business opportunities, went to work as a bond salesman and bookkeeper's apprentice at Lee, Higginson & Co. Later Salesman Field opened an investment business of his own and still later joined forces with two young investment bankers named Charles F. Glore and Pierce C. Ward...
Implicit in the entire book is the very Eton-Oxford communism held by Day Lewis and Auden and Spender, who have just discovered how the other half lives--that is, the people on the less fashionable side of the railroad tracks. The absence of personal apostrophes to "Wystan" and "Rex"--W. H. Auden and R. E. Warner--constitutes a gain in intelligibility, though even the shorter poems in the volume, such as "The Conflict" and "In me Two Worlds," which state the problems of the group almost as nicely as any prose manifesto, still want something in appeal...