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Soon prudent gourmets of celebrity turned from the Count back to his writings, pondered once more the essence of his philosophy: "Anglo-Saxons are particularly prone to misunderstand me, because they find it hard . . . to conceive that a man is able to serve others precisely by living for himself. . . . Even in my childhood the words of Jesus, Woman what have I to do with thee?? spoke more directly to me than any other. . . . Only he who lives for the supernatural can, in the deepest sense, live for himself...
...mind no less inquiring than Rasselas.† He would, guessed travelers, desire as envoy from any other state, a representative of that state's dominant race. Ras Taffari would want to learn about China from a Chinaman, not a white man; about India from a Hindu, not an Anglo-Saxon; about the U. S. from a Caucasian, not a Negro...
...Negotiations were conducted [last fortnight] in London by the Director General of the Bank of Italy. . . . with the Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who purposely had journeyed to London, and the Governor of the Bank of England, as well as with an important group of Anglo-U. S. bankers...
...granted on a gold basis by the central banks of 14 countries, among which are America and Japan, headed by the Federal Reserve System of the United States and the Bank of England. The second, amounting to $50,000,000, was granted by the Anglo-American bankers headed by the Morgan bank and with the participation of such banks as the Hambro, Rothschild, Baring et cetera, and five great English banks...
...Holy Communion to one congregation will represent Blood & Body only for the few minutes of the service, to another congregation they remain Blood & Body forever after consecration (the Roman Catholic tenet). Those Protestant Episcopalians (in England members of the Church of England) who desire full & mystic rituals call themselves Anglo-Catholics. Incidentally, they are the ones who wish a strongly centralized church government for their denomination...