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Most pointed gibes at Nazi Germany were made at the Anglo-American Press Association's annual dinner in Paris last week. A playlet depicted an imaginary second Munich conference at which Mr. Chamberlain, who had just promised Chancellor Hitler "all of Africa by 2 p. m. next Saturday," asked: "What would you have said, Adolf, if I had answered 'No' when you asked for the Sudetenland?" The German Chancellor wept into his sleeve, replied: "Ach, Mr. Chamberlain. You wouldn't have been an English gentleman...
...Rhodes Scholar from the New England district. The scholarship board called him one of the most unusual students ever to win a scholarship. Scholar Roosevelt is completing the regular four-year course at Harvard in three years, reads 13 languages (English, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Icelandic, German, Gaelic, Welsh, Anglo-Saxon, Arabic, Russian, Middle High German...
...Frank Donald Coster (according to Who's Who) got his M. D. from Heidelberg. That year and the next United States Hair Co. borrowed nearly $1,000,000 on invoices signed by branch offices in London, Paris, Naples; lenders were the Bank of the Manhattan Co., the Anglo-South American Trust Co., and J. & W. Seligman & Co., some 20 others. But when Philip Musica tried to borrow $370,000 on a bill of lading for $250 worth of hair, the company fell apart. There were no legitimate offices abroad. There was mighty little hair. There was a sudden shortage...
...offices decked with convenient chairs where dyed blonde secretaries can sit, I can safely say that the Arabs do not care for such civilization. The Jews claim that Palestine is their home because they lived there about 2,000 years ago, I would like to see some Americans of Anglo-Saxon descent go back to England and claim it as their own or, further back, the Saxons going to Germany to claim Saxony which surely was their home...
will also endeavor to make what contribution they can to the urgent need of facilitating emigration from Germany." Meanwhile, almost unnoticed during the week, the Anglo-Italian Treaty of last April was brought into effect and King-Emperor George VI with his own hand signed the credentials of British Ambassador Lord Perth to Italy's now-recognized King-Emperor Vittorio Emanuele...