Word: optimists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long consideration of the U. S. scene has not made Critic Brooks an optimist. He thinks U. S. writers tend to lose their personality. ". . . The American writer, having struck out with his new note, becomes-how often!-progressively less and less himself. The blighted career, the arrested career, the diverted career are, with us, the rule." But he has cold comfort for the pseudo-stoics: "To be, to feel oneself, a 'victim' is in itself not to be an artist, for it is the nature of the artist to live, not in the world of which...
...March 12 the Optimist, a tiny German freighter of only 318 tons, warped into a quay at Rotterdam from Hamburg. Dutch stevedores hustling aboard some additional cargo got a good look at the cargo already aboard : cases of rifles, cart ridges, hand grenades, several rolls of barbed wire and a camp forge. After two weeks in port, the Optimist was joined by a party of ten German Nazis and a small dark man with a little chin beard whom they called alternately Schaefer and "der kleine Schwartze." On March 27 the Optimist cleared for the Canary Islands off the west...
French spies in Holland quickly filled in additional details. Three days before the Optimist sailed, another German freighter of almost the same size, the Jupiter, docked at Rotterdam and began taking on cargo for West Africa too. The ships and their Nazi crews were on their way to Ifni, a small Spanish bite in the Atlantic bulge of French Morocco, to run guns to the 150,000 Moorish tribesmen, followers of the "Blue Sultan" Merebbi Rebbo Mehammedan, who fled there before advancing French troops (TIME, March 26), and to start again France's painful Moroccan wars just after final...
...this point London newspapers took up the story. Both the Optimist and the Jupiter belong to a Zurich firm named the Arksis Aksa Co. formed in 1933 "to foster trade with the Sultanate of Mauretania." London's Daily Mail charged that the real owner of Arksis Aksa Co. is Germany's munitions Tycoon Fritz Thyssen, longtime financial backer of Adolf Hitler. The Optimist was once a dispatch boat, known as the Delphin, for the German navy...
...industry has gone far enough and that the field should once more be left to free competition. While this sentiment expresses in general a growing conviction that the administration cannot much longer occupy a middle position on all-important questions of governmental control, still Mr. Ely must be an optimist indeed to believe that "free" competition will not again land us in the same slough as the one from which we are just beginning to emerge. MIDAS...