Word: oswald
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Colonel Charles Ralph Bingham, D. S. O., son of the Honorable Sir Cecil Bingham, is a product of British tradition. He went to Eton and in 1914 became A. D. C. to his father in France. Back home from war, he joined Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, but later abandoned him. He yachted in summer and sat with equally well-bred companions in the posh Carlton Club in winter. In the best Tory tradition he represented the cult of the old school tie. When World War II began he was made commander of Officer Cadet Training Unit No. 168. Last week...
...mosquito. Who was he? It was a problem that baffled the easily bored British. At last the infallible ear of a deserted wife in Sussex recognized Lord Haw-Haw's voice as her runaway husband's. His name: William Joyce, a onetime bully boy of Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley's (TIME. March...
Classical civilization, says Peattie, was sunlit, but Western civilization was born in shadowy forests. "Never in a history is there adequate description of the dark forests in which the story of early medieval Europe was enacted," he claims, forgetting that both John Ruskin and Oswald Spengler made the point long ago. The Renaissance was the product of nasty weather. Rain, cold, floods, plagues, famines, sunspots flourished in the 14th Century. Result: Giotto, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, the Medicis. Confessed Leonardo da Vinci: "All the genius that I have comes from the air [climate] of my native province." When the weather cleared...
...first Labor Government came into power in 1924, he took fright. He invested a large part of his fortune in the U. S., turned his editorial guns on Communism, began to look respectfully at dictators. In 1934 he jumped on Hitler's bandwagon, threw his support to Sir Oswald Mosley's British blackshirts. He soon abandoned Mosley, but it was not until a few months before World War II broke out that Rothermere lost hope of an alliance between Britain and Germany against Soviet Russia...
Heading the list were the Committee's honorary chairman, Professor Frans Boas, and Professor Wesley C. Mitchell, both former presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences; Oswald Garrison Villard, former publisher and editor of "The Nation"; Dr. Carleton Washburne, president of the Progressive Education Association; Professor Ralph Barton Perry of Harvard University, author of the Pulitzer Prize biography of William James...