Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Sir Oswald Mosley, 42, Great Britain's blackest fascist, and his wife, The Honorable Diana Freeman-Mitford, 28: a son, their first common child; in London, same day their marriage was revealed (TIME, Dec. 5). Formally announcing the birth in his paper Action, Sir Oswald explained why his marriage had been kept secret: "We leave to financial democracy the custom of a man taking his wife around in public...
Beethoven: Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 74 (Budapest String Quartet; Victor: 8 sides). Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 127 (Busch Quartet; Victor: 10 sides), and Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 (Busch Quartet; Victor: 11 sides). When gloomy Philosopher Oswald Spengler was casting about for the top artistic achievement of Western Civilization he included the string quartets (not the symphonies) of Beethoven. These three top achievements are given carefully tooled performances by two of the finest contemporary ensembles...
Marriage Revealed. Sir Oswald Mosley, 42, leader of Great Britain's black-shirted Fascists; and The Honorable Diana Freeman-Mitford, 28, whom Adolf Hitler once called "the ideal Nordic woman"; both for the second time; in Munich, a year ago. Because the best man, Reichsführer Hitler, had the records impounded, the marriage was kept secret. The bride's younger sister Unity Valkyrie has been booed and stoned in England, once was arrested in Czechoslovakia because of her open admiration for Hitler...
...tentative colonial negotiations the Big Four were said to be using the good offices of South African Defense Minister Oswald Pirow, who recently arrived in London after conferring in Lisbon with Premier Dr. Antonio Salazar. He will shortly visit Belgium, where his reception will be cool (see p. 27), then Germany. Neither Portugal nor Belgium nor the Netherlands, for that matter, is much better able than was Czechoslovakia to disregard any "advice" which the Great Powers may give about parceling out colonial territory-if the Big Four themselves can agree. But Chamberlain, Hitler, Daladier and Mussolini risk becoming deadlocked...
...explanation of young Bertram's new-found vigor is that buried beneath a typically complicated plot is a subtle lampoon at Sir Oswald Mosely, and indirectly at Fascism as a whole. Mr. Wodehouse, is too good an author, and possibly too clever a propagandist, ever to let his satire become oppressive, but he has given Bertie repeated opportunities to "tick off" Spode, totalitarian leader, in the strongest terms the lackadaisical hero has ever used...