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Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany, eyed last week, for the first time in his life, a cinema. It was shown for his especial benefit at the censor's office. Its name was Waterloo. President von Hindenburg asked whether anyone had been hurt in the filming of the battle scenes, smiled when reassured there were no real casualties...
...Even if Waterloo was not won on the playing fields of Eton, every Englishman and every fair-minded foreigner will admit that the Great War was won on the football fields of the United Kingdom. Nothing strikes the foreigner more than your independence as citizens and even your cheek when abroad. The Englishman seems to have learned the restraint of leadership while boys in other countries are learning Latin and arithmetic. "There might have been no Great War in Europe had the nations played with balls of leather instead of balls of lead." When George II had spoken, that distinguished...
...colloquially, Julian Hedworth George Byng, Baron Byng of Vimy, Viscount Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe le Soken, recently Governor General of His Majesty's Dominion of Canada (1921-26), and grandson of Field Marshal Sir John Byng who fought and conquered with the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo...
This book, with its careful tracing of the Fortune's growth in each successive European crisis, is answer enough to the Waterloo legend. For years Europe believed that Nathan himself posted from Waterloo to London, took his accustomed place by a pillar on the Exchange and stood there, a picture of dejection and despair, while his agents bought what the world sold in frenzy, creating the Fortune in a single morning. Count Corti does not trouble to disprove the story; the Fortune was established long before Waterloo, and weathered the Napoleonic cyclone with its turbulent aftermath...
...change is partially due to pressure from alumni, who have informed the school authorities that while it was all very well for the Duke of Wellington to say that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, it is more important now to win the Davis Cup or the Wimbledon championship. Another factor is the deserting of the students themselves from cricket in favor of tennis. Eton will start off with eight hard courts as an experiment...