Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much of the material in them was first published in 1865 in a French political satire directed against Napoleon III. The allegation that the 24 sections of the work (dealing with specific items in the "plot") were drawn up by members of the first World Zionist Congress in 1897 was disproved by internal evidence. Most likely the Protocols were concocted by Tsarist secret police at the turn of the century. In the light of the political absurdities, the economic fantasies, the contradictory strategies outlined in the "plot," only the most naïve could sincerely believe...
...Aftermath of the Civil War," President Baxter began by emphasizing that the background for present relations between the two countries has changed recently from what it had been after 1865. "Germany and Japan have achieved a position such as has been enjoyed by no nation since the time of Napoleon," he said, "and therefore we must realize that the international situation has changed radically from the conditions existent during the period to be covered by my first two lectures...
...heroic-sized historical plays to which Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck, once a specialist in turning mere newspaper headlines into screen plays, has recently made his forte. Highly romanticized, handsomely decorated and reasonably entertaining, Suez shows Tyrone Power as Ferdinand de Lesseps, successively overcoming the obstacles provided by the climate, Napoleon III, his love for the Empress Eugénie (Loretta Young), his sense of responsibility toward a towheaded waif (Annabella), and the apathy of the British Government, in order to dig his big ditch from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean...
Strangest feature of the Changkufeng affair to Russian and outside observers was that during and after the border battles Russian press comment omitted all mention of the Soviet's famed "Red Napoleon," Marshal Vasily Bluecher, Commander in Chief of the Far Eastern Army. One yellow newsman, the Japanese Domei agency's Ihacha Hagueno, dared to flash the flat statement that Marshal Bluecher had been arrested. In retaliation, Soviet secret police pounced on Hagueno's Russian woman translator and clamped her into jail. Promptly Japanese newsorgans announced that Marshal Bluecher had been not only arrested but had committed...
Despite the burden of versatility, Churchill has succeeded in writing one impressive work: a six-volume biography of his famous Whig ancestor, John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, the English Napoleon. The last volume, published last week, is perhaps the most interesting, is also the volume in which Author Churchill had to wage his stoutest defense...