Word: rhondda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the attitude of the arriving Briton was more like that of rich and alert Lady Rhondda who, arriving on the Aquitania, said: "The threat of war is so near and so constant and so inescapable that all England feels it. It is not something remote, as war in Europe must seem to you over here. It is right in her homes. I haven't got my gas mask yet-I'm not sure that I wouldn't rather be gassed right off and have it over with. But you cannot feel comfortable when you know...
During the abdication crisis of Edward VIII, Lady Rhondda said in a radio broad cast: "If he [the King] marries her [Mrs. Simpson] he will offend against the standards of the old morality. On the other hand, it seems to me that the new morality which says he should marry the woman he is in love with is a cleaner, a more honest and a better morality than the old. I myself should...
Last week Lady Rhondda went on: "In England we have stopped completely talking about the abdication of King Edward. After all it affected only one Englishman directly. That is why England took the abdication right in stride and passed over to the more important thing-the threat against the lives of every one of us over there...
Transatlantic radio failed Lady Rhondda last week, and her voice was unintelligible to the Conference. An advance copy of her speech was read by Irita Van Doren, editor of the Herald Tribune's Books Supplement. Her text was the inscription at the base of the statue of Nurse Cavell who, before she was taken out to be shot as a spy, said: "Patriotism is not enough." Her theme: "The one thing that matters more than all the rest is international relations...
...Jobs. With Lady Rhondda, Mme Dupuy and Dr. Gilbreth, Mrs. Reid has a close personal and professional kinship. They are all women who are holding down men's jobs in a man's world, with no concessions asked or given because of their sex. Women in politics may get the headlines and Sunday feature stories but it is women in Big Business that make Mrs. Reid and her friends feel that the world is moving forward. The list of lose who hold top-notch positions makes an impressive roster: Josephine Roche, who owns and runs her late father...