Word: rothschild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like the phone book: great cast of characters but not much plot. Such as it is, the story concerns the engagement of a beautiful Gentile and a wealthy young baron named Saül de Goldschild. This provides endless opportunities to discuss mixed marriages (like those of the Rothschilds), circumcision, Jews in the church, Jews and sex, Jews in finance (such as guess who), and Jews in politics (Peyrefitte maintains that the De Rothschilds have had "jockeys" in French Cabinets since World War I, the present incumbent being Premier Georges Pompidou, a former director-general of the Rothschild bank...
...motives for writing the book were purely humanitarian. "From the moment that the Jews are no longer a minority but a majority," he explains, "the Jewish problem, which is one of a minority, ceases to be one." Barons Guy (TIME cover, Dec. 20, 1963) and Edmond de Rothschild went to court on the grounds that the book contained "a string of intolerable defamations and offenses to the dignity and consideration of a great family." In defense, Peyrefitte's lawyer argued that the Rothschilds, "like all the greats of this world, are open to public criticism...
Most seriously hit was El Cobre, a tiny copper town run by a subsidiary of Baron Guy de Rothschild's Société Minière et Métallurgique de Penarroya. For 35 years the mineowners had channeled their slag into a reservoir behind a 230-ft. earth dam. Just below the dam were the wooden huts of the town's 400 miners. When the tremors came, the dam gave way, and the thick, muddy waste exploded out across the valley, burying 200 people in seconds. One woman who saw it coming managed to scramble...
...protégé of the late Bernard Berenson, followed up a report that a French international banker, who owned a London town house around the turn of the century, had bought and installed five Tiepolos, which, he believes, once graced the Paris home of Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild. "I'm always looking for Tiepolos," says Carritt, who visited the house, owned since 1923 by Egypt and now the United Arab Republic's embassy. In a twinkling, Carritt called the overhead oils authentic, potentially worth...
...food and service were so good that more and more British and Americans began to cultivate Polish friends in order to be invited there. In 1944 Mills bought the exuberantly Victorian mansion just off Park Lane built by Banker Leopold de Rothschild and started a restaurant called Les Ambassadeurs. He operated it as a club, as most London nightspots are because of drinking-hours regulations, made membership available to nearly anyone with an air of urbanity and $30 as initiation fee, payable at the door. Its 10,000 members now include the Duke of Edinburgh, Sir Winston Churchill, the Sheik...