Word: saxon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin, not even in Prussia, but in Saxony, in Leipzig sits the German Supreme Court: das Reichsgericht. Justice is done beneath a mighty dome topped by a big bronze statue of Truth. Through tall casement windows Saxon sunbeams glint upon carved oak. In such a setting presiding Judge Baumgarten (except when fiddling with one of his ears) is a sight awesome as Olympian Jove. Boldly to face the justice down, to use the Supreme Court dome as a demagog's thumping tub, to hurl from dem Reichsgericht a defy which reverberated throughout Europe, such was the feat last week...
...years ago certain changes were made in the Indian Government with the idea of giving the great Eastern empire of many races a suitable place in the new scheme of British policy. Along among the colonies India possessed a high non-Anglo-Saxon population which necessitates special treatment. What would work for Australia and Ireland would not do, it was thought, for India. So a make-shift arrangement was knocked together to serve in the land of the Ganges. It did not work very well, everyone admits that, and the Nationalists are demanding with an ever more loud voice that...
...conflict between Thomas a Becket and King Henry II, from the time when the King himself disturbed the serene sway of his chancellor by creating him Archbishop of Canterbury, through the conversion of Becket into a meek exponent of passive resistance, a Mahatma-like figure who led his Saxon beggar-followers with the sign of the Cross. At length he so maddened the King that four Norman nobles took the royal wrath as a pretext for slaughtering this enemy of their oligarchy. The narrator is one John, the Crossbowman, Swabian body-servant of the King...
...Education, reveals that the number of foreign students studying in this country has more than doubled during the past ten years. The great influx of foreign students which commenced shortly after the World War has been most marked by the doubling of the numbers from the countries of Anglo-Saxon civilization...
Italy, together with Germany and France, sends the largest numbers to America. Canada sends 1200 of the 1700 students from Anglo-Saxon lands. China is the great donor of Eastern students, and sends about 1250 of them to this country every year. The figures from China have varied very little while the changes in ratio were taking place in the other nations...