Word: sassoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the face of the British Empire . . . hated by his former followers and ignored by his Tory colleagues." Winston Churchill, Sir Samuel Hoare, George V, Montagu Norman are less sensational exhibits in the British tent. But before the British Intelligence Service, the Marquess of Reading and Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon. who shifted a fortune of 85 million dollars Mex. to China to escape high taxes, the author pauses, describing their exploits with a shudder not entirely justified by his facts. Stating that conservatives now "have control of the British Intelligence Service, Unofficial Observer propagates an E. Phillips Oppenheim theory...
...unknown soldier. Their grisly finds make a pile of evidence more terribly impressive (though more ephemeral) than any neat, white, euphemistic cenotaph to the glorious dead. Austria's Andreas Latzko (Men in War), France's Henri Barbusse (Le Feu), England's C. E. Montague (Disenchantment), Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer), Robert Graves (Goodbye to All That), Germany's Fritz von Unruh (Way of Sacrifice), Erich Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), Arnold Zweig (The Case of Sergeant Grischa), Franz Werfel (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh), America's John Dos Passes (Three...
...unreconstructed rebel against the Soviets, Author Bunin left Russia some 16 years ago, lives an exile's life at Grasse, France. The Well of Days tells the story of his quiet youth in the country he loves and thinks he will never see again. As in Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the names of people and places are changed, but the thin disguise is not intended to deceive. A nonpolitical novelist, Bunin is out of step with his countrymen but beats no rival drum. Quietly certain that Russia is on the down grade...
Having used the term "Lost Generation," Lewis thinks himself sufficiently justified to start a discussion of post war literature. This is him seems to have been fired by Mr. Sigfried Sassoon "in full Tallyho" mood. Somehow "the fox hunting man" suggests Eric Maria Remarque; and after some preliminary remarks about "All Quiet on the Western Front," Mr. Lewis pitches into the real interest of the modern critic, the author's life and personality. Investigation has shown him that in 1919 Remarque wore a uniform of a Lieutenant of the 91st Infantry Regiment, whereas the President of the Reichs-archiv...
...Wyndham Lewis is brilliant. He has a pointed, a trenchant style; and he has written one novel, which does not fall short of greatness. "Tarr." And with his equipment, he should not waste his time flying Remarque or Sassoon, if they are really as insignificant as he claims...