Word: leeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MAJOR F. E. LEEK, U.S.M.C...
...volume is the second, for it contains observations on French politics which deviate sharply from the accepted portrait. France, according to Professor Guerard, never was a democracy, but rather a dictatorship of the middle class. It has always been governed by a bureaucracy which since Napoleon has clung leek-like to the tenets of bourgeois liberalism. The author favors a cold-blooded recognition of the fact that Parliamentarianism is not a French idea, and that government by a score of parties without a strong executive is impossible. These observations may be sound political theory, but the reader is left...
...Kedgeree of Kidneys), Savoy Chef Latry (Fried Swedes; Pickled Swedes*); Mrs. Neville Chamberlain (Fish and Leek Pudding...