Monday, Nov. 07, 1938
Henry Ford offered to "bet anyone even money there will never be another war."
In Killarney, Ireland, a tailor produced in court a note of commendation from George Bernard Shaw as evidence of his skill. Interposed the judge: "I've noticed that Mr. Shaw wears the most appalling clothes."
Major Albert Brill (U. S. A., ret.) declared himself a candidate for the job of World Dictator, then sailed for Europe to arrange for foreign publication of his four volumes (Individual Ascendency, Collective Ascendency, Ascendent Government, Citizenship) that explain all. Said he: "The world is practically a vast lunatic asylum. . . ."
At the New York Herald Tribune's eighth annual Forum on Current Problems. Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn (Little Women, Little Minister, Alice Adams, Mary of Scotland, Quality Street), attacked the cinema industry for its ostrich attitude: ". . . Let a movie try to depict situations in which we are all involved now; let a movie try to wake people up to their own plight . . . ; let a movie try to present a moral, economic or political problem of today honestly and simply, and they are advised to hear nothing, say nothing, do nothing.''
Oldtime pro-German Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck hailed the Peace of Munich: "It was left to Hitler and Mussolini to translate into practice the sublime ideals of President Wilson and Colonel House.''
By her own wish, in the chapel of her beloved country Castle Balcic overlooking the Black Sea, a mauve-lined silver casket containing the heart of the late Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania was enshrined.
Warned that Austrian veal was becoming scarce and that the famed Wiener Schnitzel cutlet would soon be a thing of the past, Nazi Commissioner Josef Burckel replied: "If higher interests demand the disappearance of the Wiener Schnitzel then what I say is--let the Wiener Schnitzel go to the devil."
In Williamsburg. Va.. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright told a dumbfounded audience that the only value of the town's restoration by the Rockefellers was to "show us how little we need this type of architecture now." Said he: "What has been done for you, or to you, here in Williamsburg, has advanced our cause of modern, organic architecture greatly, but not in the way it was intended. It shows how narrow, how shallow life was in Colonial days. I have long ceased to take off my hat to our forefathers, seeing what a mess they left us." Up in arms, as one man, rose Colonial-conscious Virginia.
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