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...known today as Sir Basil Zaharoff. He was on intimate of Lloyd George during the war; a few relatively mild revelations of the degree to which he influenced Great Britain's armament, military, and foreign policies during and after the war were enough, in 1922, to send Lloyd George, who did more than any other man to win the way out of office forever. This strange character, the greatest armament salesman the world has ever known, struck a major spark in the world when he collided with an American of somewhat similar interests. Zaharoff at that time was a salesman...
...Fokine create ballets that had true dramatic context. He used settings by Bakst, Derain, later Picasso. He commissioned composers like Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel to write him music. Expense was no item to Sergei Diaghilev. The Russian Ballet was the rage of Europe. Men like Baron Dmitri Gunsburg, Sir Basil Zaharoff and Aga Khan were proud to support it. Diaghilev is the villain of Romola Nijinsky's story, although she freely grants him his tremendous enterprise...
...been held by such famed Peace Men as Sir Austen Chamberlain, Sir John Simon, Lord Balfour and Dean Inge of St. Paul's. Its greatest salesman was a Greek by the name of Basileios Zacharias, who now, in his dotage, is known to the world as Sir Basil Zaharoff. Sir Basil is responsible for the ultimate technique of armament salesmanship: Sell one country an order and use it as a talking point to sell a larger order to a potential enemy. After Sir Basil had sold Greece its first submarine, he promptly induced Turkey...
...Munitions Tycoon Sir Basil Zaharoff who owns much of Monte Carlo is supposed to have started, among other stories, the one about the Vatican being No. 2 stockholder in Monte's Casino. Last week octogenarian Sir Basil ("The Mystery Man of Europe") told reporters that he was going to make the first formal press statement of his career. "You can quote me as saying," he chuckled, "that I shall not die to please the Press! I am sincerely annoyed by all these reports of my illness. Just now I am feeling fine and enjoying my food...
...best deal with the War and its aftermath. In one is to be seen a very dowdy Woodrow Wilson broadcasting while a little dove exhibits the message "He kept us out of War''; Eugene Debs in jail; the faces of the Rockefellers, J. P. Morgan, Sir Basil Zaharoff, Colonel House, Clemenceau, Tsar Nicholas, the Emperor of Japan, Bernard Baruch; behind them the "Living Death" and other photographic War horrors taken whole from The Horror of It (TIME, March 21, 1932). The other panel shows a row of blue-clad factory girls apparently chained to a stamping machine, nine...