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EXILE IN A BOOK OF THE WEEK

NEW WORLD

By Beverley Baxter, M.P.

Miss Friedelinde Wagner. When the war broke out she grand-daughter of the immortal was living in Switzerland, hav Richard, is no longer an intern- ing refused to stay in Germany ed prisoner in England. She is under Hitler. She then wrote on the seus en route to Buenos to me suggesting that she should Aires and running the gauntlet come to England and do anti- of the submarine manned by Hitler propaganda. After months of delay between the and British Foreign When Miss Wagner reaches French 'Buenos Aires she will presum- Offices I succeeded in bringing ably take on her duties as an her to London where she wrote assistant director of the opera, a brilliant series of articles for a post which has been arranged the "Daily Sketch" exposing the for her by Signor Toscanini, real nature of Hitler. Miss Wagner is only 22 years of

her countrymen,

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ROBERT DELL, which ileal theorist but a fran on the spot last year, was long known observing events through all his as one of the most brilliant of senses, "Geneva Rocket" has the modern foreign correspondents, double interest of history and of a His courage, his knowledge, his personal narrative. incisiveness of phrase won him

even

Library.

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WARD LOCK'S COLONIAL among those who have some- LIBRARY. BLUE PETE. REBEL times differed from his judg- By Luke Allan. Jenkins' Colonial ment of events. The phrase "the acid test" has become a Blue Pete, that enigmatic half- cliche, but it might truly be breed, is not up to his usual high standard In Mr Allan's latest story, said of Dell that he was a journ- which deals with rustling on the alist with an unequalled gift for Canadian side of the border. Maybe like applying the acid test to the being married his got him down, ho takes a long time bridg

to

the policies and personalities of the many a good man before him, but rustlers to justice and nearly gets leading statesmen of Europe.

In "THE GENEVA RACKET himself killed in the process. Pete'n (1920-1930)" (Hale, 18s.) he has efforts to prova that he is not a written a bitter indictment of the rustler himself are sadly worrying to politicians who wrecked the League his good friend, Sergeant Malion. For of Nations and who, in his view, be- ways that are dark, Poto quite equals tween the Abyssinian crisis and the anything of Bret Harte. Munich agreement, made a European

CAPTURE. By Wyndham Marlyn. war inevitable.

Jenkins' Colonial Library.

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Every day of the week is set apart as the Sabbath by some religion. Can you name them?

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Is saccharin sweeter than sugar?

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In what month last year' did the Petain government sign ùn armistice with Germany?/

• One who has histrionic train- ing is a (n) history teacher (b) actor (c) economist (d). dancer (e) 'writer.

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Deaf mutes communicate with each other through an alphabot known as (a) menology (b) myology (c) dactylology (d) phraseology (e) horology.

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Winston Churchill was born in 1874. Who was Prime Minis- ter then?

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Can you give the pseudonyms for (a) Louise de in Ramee (b) Caroline Cody (c) Marion Evans

Clemens?" (d) Arthur Ward (e) S. L.

What is referred to as the Roof of the World?

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If you had to measure the thickness of an object you would use a (a) calorimeter (b) calliope (c) caliph (d) calliper.

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Answers on Page 12.

He is particularly critical of the "CAPTURE" is another spy story, part English statesmen played in the not quite so soundly constructed and failure to check Mussolini at the well written as "Enter a Spy," per- time of the aggression in Abyssinia. hops, but nevertheless full of thrills Historians will probably argue for and exciting situations, Christopher generations to come over the

Bond fills the chief role, proves When was the War of Jen- tonment of blame between England maths for the most nat te ved and France for the failure to make beautiful of enemy agents. This de-kin's Ear fought, and between sanctions real. From any point of bonair and attractive character has whom?

the fallure even to however, recognise the possibilities of the successful islera of Mr Martyn's

thrillers. League of Nations as an

an instrument of collective security was disastrous; and it is easy to understand the pos- sion with which Dell writes that "from the first the conduct of the British Government about the Ethio- pian affair was an imposture-one of the greatest political Impostures in history."

. Dell, however, is critical of the

League constitution Nations, as well as of the conduct of the Great Powers represented on It. He holds that no League can be

age but she is a most deter- Then in June last year came mined and opinionated young the invasion

all woman who has had much to do enemy aliens were rounded up. with the management of the Then Toscanini in New York Bayreuth Festivals. I predict cabled the money to send her a Wagner. boom in South to the Argentine. The Govern- America.

ment decided to review her case, and not long ago I went to see Her sailing, from England's her to wish her good-bye. shores ends my personal as- "Do you regret having turned sociation with her and also is against Hitler?" I asked. "Not the last chapter of an almost at all" she said. "I have been unbelievable story. I met her treated well by the British two years before the war in authorities and, after all, they London when she expressed the had to intern us all.” most bitter hostility towards It is a queer story but then Hitler although the Wagner she is a grand-daughter of the family had been his greatest man who burned his own opera friends. In fact it was her house to prevent the Prussians father Siegfried Wagner and using it as a protection to fire his wife who supplied Hitler against the rebels of Dresden. with the ink and paper on which He was an exile from Germany he wrote that adolescent for 12 years with a price on his triumph Mein Kampf."

hend. Friedelinde is an exile Friedelinde was a great fa- too, but on her way to the kindly vourite of his and she worship- new world of the Americas. It emcient l the various nations.re ped him until he became the is a story which Richard Wag-nounce their insistence on absolute Fuehrer, when she came to the ner himself would not have des- national sovereignty. conclusion that he was the evil pised to use as the theme of one genius of Germany.

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