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...violently emotional, often extremely cruel; that while Washington constantly urged the U. S. to avoid "entangling alliances," Bolivar was an internationalist, dreamed and wrote of a League of Nations with Panama as its Geneva. The real difference is that George Washington was a large, blue-eyed, red-headed Anglo-Saxon. Simon Bolivar was a small, black-eyed Latin. Both were born aristocrats, able generals. Both were friends of LaFayette, both wrote voluminous political treatises which have profoundly affected the courses of their nations. Washington secretly, Bolivar openly mistrusted and despised the common people. Both often led ragged, ill-equipped armies...
Havana gave $65,805 to its Anglo-American Welfare Federation...
...which Montagu Norman was a partner before he became head of the Bank of England. In Brown Bros, originated the Traveler's Letter of Credit. From the day when the first great foreign loan was placed in the U. S. in the form of a $500,000,000 Anglo-French issue, Brown Bros, have been the principal for all French loans. In Brown Bros. Wall Street office the son of many a prominent foreign banker learns U. S. methods...
...them." Crown from all hostile action against The period of Mr. Churchill's "hostile action" would thus be from the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1917 up to its recognition by the first MacDonald Government in 1924. But it might also include the period from 1927 (when Anglo-Soviet relations were broken off by the Baldwin Government in which Mr. Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer) up to last year, when the second MacDonald Government extended British recognition to Moscow for the second time. No apologist but a slasher, a thruster, Mr. Churchill wrote of the Soviet State...
...reader condemns him publicly, reads him privately, as a lewd fellow. Actually a plain dealer, his outspokenness on sex got this passionate preacher a bad name. This posthumous novel, his first to appear since the privately-printed Lady Chatterley's Lover, is sufficiently outspoken, but contains no Anglo-Saxonisms that would horrify a censor...