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...Armand Jean du Plessis Cardinal Richelieu. His career is the greatest paradox in paradoxical French politics. A prince of the church, Richelieu revived and carried through the domestic and foreign policies of Protestant Henri IV ("Paris is worth a Mass!"). In league with the greatest living Protestant king, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Catholic Richelieu broke the power of the greatest Catholic state in Europe-Habsburg Spain...
...Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell, son of Viscount Boyne and nephew of the Earl of Harewood (brother-in-law of George VI). His ancestor Sir Frederick Hamilton had distinguished himself fighting Germans under Sweden's great King Gustavus Adolphus. Guardsman Hamilton-Russell's son Gustavus Michael George, aged 8 and the final survivor of his family, is now heir to Lord Boyne...
...sporty-looking character who somewhat resembles an intelligent football player, he makes no secret of the fact that he considers himself the personal representative of Göring in Sweden. More than once he has stood for an hour straight-arming before the Stockholm statue of the great Gustavus Adolf us (who overran Germany in 1630-32) while comrades paraded behind him. Once he was asked at a public meeting what he would do if Germany invaded. "I will not be provoked," said Sergeant Lindholm...
...horse, Socialist-minded Chicago publisher printed a small edition of Gustavus Myers' History of the Great American Fortunes. Its author was a fact-worshipping reporter of Philadelphia and Manhattan who had spent eight years digging out his facts. No other publisher would touch it-they feared it was "of such a nature ... as to get us into a great deal of trouble." Declared a typical nose-holding review (New York Times): "It leaves such a bad taste in the mouth that readers may be cordially advised to read something else...
...slight, soft-voiced Gustavus Myers has written a sequel which leftists are not likely to crib. To declare that big U. S. fortunes are ending in the natural course of things is bad news for those who advocate ending them by "proletarian" revolution. Far less detailed than its predecessor, also far livelier, The Ending of Hereditary American Fortunes goes back a long way to explain its title. Key of Myers' argument is the U. S. tradition against special privileges that are due to accident of birth...