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...White Charger is a novel about Michel, an illegitimate son. Father spends most of his time at sea, mother spends most of hers smoking opium, so Michel soon learns to look after himself. He grows into a talented pianist and crooner -but so indifferent to the life of post-World War I that he scarcely bothers to sing for his supper. Women-princesses, chambermaids, davies, chorines-are all bowled over by Michel's fascinating indifference. At 25, Michel is the western world's most bored Casanova, married to an aging American moneybag and hopelessly in love with...
...Russians, who had done most of the post-World War II political grabbing, were taking the worst verbal beating from delegates intent on restraining power politics. The big question in London was: will the Russians take it long enough to get used to it? The Russian methods were still rude and crude, but close observers detected no sign that the Russian delegation would pull...
...hazard in that quarter-deck doctrine was that reactionary thinking in post-World War II might set in, not only among the battleship admirals (who actually were in retreat) but among the airmen. Men like Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, and even younger aviators like Rear Admiral Arthur Radford might become wedded to the carrier, which had spearheaded the war.* Not to be overlooked by prophets is the fact that after World War I the radicals thought the naval weapon of the future was the submarine. In 1913 amiable, conservative Admiral Richard S. Edwards...
...governors were world powers. In the 19th Century, the pound sterling, under the bank's leadership, became a universal currency - a circumstance shattered by World War I which broke up the gold standard, and left England debt-ridden. In the post-World War I period, under recently-retired Governor Montagu Collet Norman, it reestablished the gold standard for six years, thereafter became a virtual adjunct of the British Treasury...
...acres choked with nettles and burdock. The struggle was common to officers and men alike: "General Pendleton plowed his Lexington farm in clothes so ragged that passers-by took him for a hired hand. General Elliott peddled fish and oysters"-a forerunner of the host of apple-sellers of post-World War I. After Reconstruction, individual states began to provide old soldiers' homes and small pensions for the needy...