Word: pre-war
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...whit. If there is less bile in All Men Are Enemies, if it seems a bit less malicious than the previous Aldington novels, it is because it is longer (574 pp.), less direct, padded. Author Aldington is finding it increasingly difficult to pick off the remaining bowling pins of pre-War cant and hypocrisy, having already sent the bulk of them crashing oft the alley...
...sche ("frogs"),* Nazi brownshirts padlocked their headquarters, carried off "Frog" Herbert von Bismarck for a night of grilling questions. Ironically the presses of Frog Chief Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. the Fatherland's newspaper tycoon who made World news fortnight ago by demanding the return to Germany of her pre-War colonies by the London Conference (see p. 17). were obliged to print with an approving tone last week that "The Chancellor received Dr. Hugenberg tonight with no others present and explained to him the reasons for the Battle Ring's suppression...
Count Nicolas has had an adventurous and egocentric life, whose parts do not always fit neatly together. A wild young aristocrat in pre-War Russia, leading a riotous life as an officer in the Tsar's "Horses' Guards" and moving in very "hyg" society, he was also a Nihilist who fled to Paris, was extradited and sent to Siberia. Describing himself as "the Don Juan of Our Days," he was in constant fun-paying arrears. "My good living with pretty gerls cost me planty money and brogth me in the claws of those wampyres of the humanity...
...from her by the Treaty of Versailles, parcelled out in League mandates held by the victorious Allies. In London last week delegates to the World Monetary and Economic Conference were flabbergasted when German Delegate Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. Minister of Economics & Food in the Hitler Cabinet, reaffirmed Germany's pre-War claim to colonies and a "place...
...sentiment in this country in favor of conceding its fairness would have been overwhelming had it not been for the general militaristic developments in Germany recently and the recrudescence and flaunting of pre-War ideas in pre-War language...