Word: streits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Louis Streit now proudly recalls: "He was always worrying about people who were bad off in India and other foreign places." Clarence was classified by his family as an idealist like his late mother, Emma Kirshman Streit. Her motto was: "'I can't never did do anything." Clarence believed in the motto...
...smattering of French subsequently landed him in Intelligence. Sergeant Streit, gangling and fresh-faced, served as one of the security guards at the peace conference at Versailles. There he worshiped from afar the man whom he had questioned skeptically as the leader of the war effort-Wilson, now the apostle of a great movement for peace...
Demobbed and back in the U.S., Streit finished his college education at Missoula, went off to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. He spent his vacations wandering around Europe, in Paris met and fell in love with blonde Jeanne Defrance. When they married, he had to quit Oxford: he went to work as a newspaperman...
Correspondent Streit covered Mussolini's March on Rome. He went to North Africa for the New York Times to report the peaceful exhuming of an older, buried civilization-Carthage-and found himself reporting the Riff war. He covered the Balkans and ended up finally covering the League of Nations in Switzerland...
...Poison. From Geneva, where he had settled with his wife and three children, Pierre, Jeanne and Colette, Streit watched the collapse of Wilson's dream of world peace. Now disillusioned, he watched as the League gagged over the march of the Japs into Manchuria in 1931, as the 1932 Disarmament Conference ended in a fiasco, as the London Economic Conference wheezingly expired. He listened as the hot winds of Naziism roared through Germany. The underlying theme of the history which he reported in long, earnest dispatches to the Times was always the same-the disunity and ineffectiveness...