Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always agree. The Serbs, 6,500,000 strong, had always ruled, intended to continue to rule. The 4,000,000 hardworking, stubborn Croats, used to their own local Diet at Zagreb even under the Habsburgs, felt they were a repressed minority, agitated for local autonomy, civil rights, the secret ballot, constitutional reform. The Slovenes, 1,000,000 of them, clustered up near the old Austrian border, shrewdly bargained for political favors. Thrown in also were 500,000 potentially troublesome Germans, 440,000 difficult Magyars, tens of thousands of White Russian exiles. The majority of Serbs and Montenegrans (now pretty much...
...Great Britain's blackest fascist, and his wife, The Honorable Diana Freeman-Mitford, 28: a son, their first common child; in London, same day their marriage was revealed (TIME, Dec. 5). Formally announcing the birth in his paper Action, Sir Oswald explained why his marriage had been kept secret: "We leave to financial democracy the custom of a man taking his wife around in public...
Walser, a dark lad with curly hair, was "commissar," and Ishmael, who wears a wisp of black mustache, was "vice commissar" of a secret group calling itself "C?C" (Curiosity Club). Its members, 24 boys, nine girls, all wore a uniform of black shirt, black breeches and black boots. Male members also were expected to grow mustaches. Meeting in members' houses, they discussed sex, atheism and a program they distilled from Plato, Aristotle and Edward Bellamy's Utopia. Specific points in their program: less restrictive marriage laws, more sex education, a plan (a kind of first cousin...
...Great Britain's black-shirted Fascists; and The Honorable Diana Freeman-Mitford, 28, whom Adolf Hitler once called "the ideal Nordic woman"; both for the second time; in Munich, a year ago. Because the best man, Reichsführer Hitler, had the records impounded, the marriage was kept secret. The bride's younger sister Unity Valkyrie has been booed and stoned in England, once was arrested in Czechoslovakia because of her open admiration for Hitler...
Howe-is a short, sharp, outspoken Yankee who looks a good deal like an Englishman himself. While he was editing Living Age, he became convinced that British-American antagonism was growing. War debts, the Ottawa agreement, books like Frank Hanighen's The Secret War for Oil strengthened his conviction. In his book, the U. S. teems with British propagandists and secret agents; the English Speaking Union manipulates U. S. public opinion; and, according to Sir Wilmot Lewis, Mr. Howe sees an Englishman under every...