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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the last months of 1936, I thought I felt boredom creeping into my former unrefined enjoyment. Your stodgy treatment of the Woman of the Year made boredom too mild a word for what I felt...
...Italian correspondents were recalled from Britain, all British newspapers, with the exception of the pro-Fascist Daily Mail, Evening News and Sunday Observer, were barred from Italy, and a semi-official boycott of the entire British Coronation was clamped on the Italian press. Immediately after the order, not a word of British news appeared in Italian papers. Even Italian newsreels were snipped of all British scenes. Elaborate pictorial supplements were ripped out of their dummies. Mention of the Coronation itself was limited to brief paragraphs on inside pages, transcribed from official Stefani News Agency reports...
Last week a spectacled German bachelor, visiting England on a passport bearing the name "Ian Anderson," received word that he had been appointed a professor at Harvard University. "Ian Anderson," whose friends know him as Germany's onetime (1930-32) Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, was as glad as any exiled German scholar to get work...
...pause Mr. Abbott would say inaudibly, "no bid." Finally he picked up his documents, returned to wait 60 or 90 days for the next auction, when he will do the same thing all over again. In good form Mr. Abbott can read his 52 pages without skipping a word in one hour and a half. If he is tired, it may take two hours...
...stamp out the name of its former Prince and King. Few men in high office seem to remember how much service he gave the Empire as Prince of Wales, endlessly traveling to important markets to help English business and to win friends for his country. Without one public word of complaint or bitterness he gave in to the appeals of his Ministers and, abdicating, left England for three months of loneliness abroad. Only people in other countries can tell the English how much the gallant "Prince of Sales" did for them and how much brighter he made the Coronation...