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According to German Philosopher Oswald Spengler (Decline of the West), civilizations are born and die like human beings, their average life-span about 1,500 years. One crusty old civilization that lived longer than Spengler's average was Persia's. In 4000 B. C. Persia got started. The Greeks and Romans, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, came & went, and still Persia was going strong. Not until the 18th Century, after some 6,000 continuous years of art, culture and prosperity, did Persia finally bite the dust. Even then it was European commercial competition, more than...
Since the war began, cocky British Führer Oswald Mosley was reported in London to have found a new pastime, cookery. His specialty: lobster mousse...
...once-familiar voice in Britain. Though Joyce was born in the U. S., of an Irish father and a Yorkshire mother, he was taken to England as a boy. He went to London University, was a star language student, tutored for some years, took up with Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in 1933. He became Mosley's speechifying director of propaganda. In 1937, he was kicked out, formed Britain's National Socialist League. As a memento of one Fascist brawl in Great Britain, Joyce carries the scar of a razor slash from mouth...
...native of Bavaria; his name was Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard, but he changed it when he quarreled with his father and fled to the U. S. A reporter, Civil War correspondent, railway promoter, financier, Villard married Gar rison's sister Fanny. He left The Nation to his son, Oswald Garrison Villard, when he died...
...Manchester (TIME, Feb. 5) Mr. Churchill was indeed interrupted, but only by three isolated and promptly shushed calls for British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley...