Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contemporary politicians except Louisiana's Huey Long and Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo had appealed so successfully to ignorance and bigotry. Gene Talmadge had been vehemently for keeping "the nigger" in his place. He had opposed high wages and labor unions, and had taken a dim view of education for the masses...
Princess Elizabeth, who recently went shooting in Invernesshire, drew a reproachful look from The League Against Cruel Sports. Wrote the League's secretary : "My committee greatly regrets your action in shooting a stag for sport, particularly in view of your connection with the Girl Guide movement, whose sixth law states that a Guide is a friend to animals...
...know if this young man is going to marry Princess Elizabeth nor do I care a damn. I might reply to the sentimental view that she ought to marry an Englishman and a 'commoner' by arguing that her background being what it is, the kind of commoner she would be most likely to marry is one of the Tory guard officers with whom she goes dancing, or possibly the son of some prominent Munichite or former Fascist. It might be different if the poor girl had not been so carefully sheltered from contact with ordinary working-class...
...Cannot Stop Her." In Amsterdam, 9,900 miles away, Dutchmen could not bring themselves to accept so pessimistic a view, which would spell catastrophe for their country. Said Pieter de Jong, a middle-of-the-road Dutch businessman: "We've already lost our trade with Germany. If we lose Indonesia too, The Netherlands will become one of the poorest countries on the Continent. If Indonesia really wants complete freedom, we are not going to stop her and we cannot stop her. But we Netherlanders sincerely hope the Indonesians have some common sense left. If we move out, the Indonesians...
European Witness is a ditty bag of impressions collected by Poet Spender on a tour he made through Germany (with a dip into France) for the British Government in 1945, "to inquire into the lives and ideas of German intellectuals, with a particular view to discovering any surviving talent in German literature...