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...British Foreign Office that if it is to be prevented, by the Monroe Doctrine, from following its normal policy in dealing with backward countries in such affairs, then the least the U. S. can do is to see to it that the natives maintain a decent regard for Anglo-Saxon property rights...
Nearly half of Vienna's 25-member Anglo-American Press Association found it wise to get out of Vienna-or were bluntly ordered to leave. International News Service's Alfred Tyrnauer, an Austrian Jew, was arrested in the cable office while filing a story, his passport confiscated, his detention ordered; when the U. S. Legation took note, he was released for transfer to the Paris I. N. S. office. The New York Times's, bureau chief, G. E. R. Gedye, who had spent 13 years in Vienna, was ordered to leave the country in three days...
...years old, who walks from two to five miles for a breakfast appetizer, speaks phonograph-taught French. As plain John Cadman, he devoted his life to coal, gas and oil, spent twelve years' professorship of mining and petroleum technology at Birmingham University before he became head of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd. and was raised to the peerage. When a British M.P. last year accused the Government-backed Imperial Airways of being "the laughing stock of the world," Lord Cadman was named as a disinterested layman to head a committee of inquiry into all civil aviation...
POEMS-Rex Warner-Knopf ($2). When of late years the Anglo-Communism of Oxford Poets Auden, Spender, Day Lewis broke the ice of post-War English poetry, fellow Oxonian Rex Warner started skating on one of the smaller cakes. More of a country man than an Anglo-Communist, more of an Anglo-Communist than a poet, his best poems are honest descriptions, his worst, honest cant...
...critic long before he was a playwright alike, in his long poem The Waste Land (1922) and in his brilliant literary essays, he founded a movement. Becoming ever more conservative and religious-minded, Eliot finally, in 1927, stated his position as "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion." All his later works are colored by this credo...