Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Nazis preach Nordic racial superiority, they have little hesitation in stringing along with a Mediterranean people like the Italians or an Oriental one like the Japanese. Moreover, they strenuously try to cultivate friendship with the Arabs, who are not only non-Aryan but Semitic. Last week Adolf Hitler received at his Berchtesgaden retreat a tall, straight, bearded Arab dressed in a beautifully embroidered flowing robe. His name was Khalid al Hud, and his position is that of counselor and emissary of Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, "Guardian of the Holy Places," the most potent and most independent...
...nearly every important story. He had a scientist's cold, impersonal approach to tabloid journalism, delighted in thinking up euphemisms to say what the paper could not say in so many words. Constant readers of the News always read erotic for exotic, philanderer for dilettante, lesbianism for bizarre friendship, kept for showered with gifts, sexual intercourse for kiss...
Literary kudos came to Author Reinhardt in 1932. While he was consul at Seattle, the Strassburger Foundation to further U. S.-German friendship awarded its $1,000 prize to his terse, lively, human, 367-page Washington biography, The Story of the Making of a Nation. In it Author Reinhardt compared General Washington to Field Marshal von Hindenburg, his all-time hero. Among the literary judges who picked the book were Scientist Albert Einstein, Authors Thomas Mann, Jacob Wassermann, Stefan Zweig. All are now dead or in exile...
Across the Channel in France two onetime French Premiers openly talked appeasement. Pierre Laval, signer of the 1935 pact with Italy and saboteur of the French eastern European alliance system, urged before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee a return to friendship with Italy, warned that a Soviet pact would be more dangerous than helpful. Pierre Etienne Flandin, who wired congratulations to Adolf Hitler last autumn after Munich, called for "mediation" with Germany...
...Raphaelite. With Painters Holman Hunt and J. E. Millais (whom Lear called "Uncle" when he didn't call him "Aunt"), Lear once shared a farmhouse studio. Close friends of Lear were Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson and his wife, with whom Lear had his closest feminine friendship. But Mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) is so carefully unmentioned in Lear's long letters and diary that Author Davidson thinks Lear may have been jealous of the author of Alice in Wonderland...