Word: eugenic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arabs' second main goal was intended to force reduction of West German aid to Israel. The Arab Pre miers warned Bonn that they just might retaliate by recognizing East Germany. This heavy-handed blackmail was rejected by Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier, who replied: "It goes too far when some other state, against which we have nothing, tries to stop us from giving aid to Israel...
...PRINCE EUGEN OF SAVOY by Nicholas Henderson. 324 pages. Praeger...
...frail and his manners effeminate. France's Louis XIV concluded that he would never make a soldier, forthwith ordered him to study for the priesthood. It was perhaps the most damaging decision the Sun King ever made. For young Eugen, a minor prince of the Alpine duchy of Savoy, was defiant and outraged. He disguised himself as a woman and fled to Vienna and the court of Leopold I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, who happened to be a distant cousin. Prince Eugen solemnly swore that he would return to France only in another guise -with sword...
Over the next 50 years, Eugen made good his oath. He became the Habsburgs' top commander, defeated Louis' armies in the field, and frustrated Louis' territorial ambitions. A century later Napoleon, an artist in the field himself, ranked Eugen as one of the seven most brilliant generals in all history...
Poison Plot. Astonishingly enough, Eugen has been little studied, and this thorough biography by Nicholas Henderson, a high-ranking member of Britain's Foreign Office, is the first full-scale account in English of this extraordinary man. His career is only comprehensible in terms of a day when Europe was fragmented into provinces rather than nations, when men were loyal to patrons rather than nations, and when aristocrats felt more kinship to other aristocrats than to their own peasants. Eugen was the product of just such confused loyalties, unimaginable in these tidier times. For all his years serving...