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The French Army in Africa (The Commonweal, 1941)
1941, Commonweal Magazine, Recent Articles, World War One

The French Army in Africa
(The Commonweal, 1941)

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Attached is a history article concerning the various organizations that made up the French Colonial Army in Africa:

Before and during the World War, all the different races serving in the French Army were excellently officered by subalterns and non-coms born in North Africa, but of European ancestry: by sons of immigrated colonists of French, Spanish and Italian extraction.

The late Marshal Lyautey used to say of these sons of European settlers: ‘Their knowledge of the ways of the natives is priceless, because they have assimilated it from childhood. In the native regiments, they constitute a human concrete, which keeps together men of antagonistic races and beliefs’

Hermann Goering: Power Hungry Graff Master (Click Magazine, 1943)
1943, Click Magazine, Hermann Goering, Recent Articles

Hermann Goering: Power Hungry Graff Master
(Click Magazine, 1943)

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Appearing on the pages of a 1943 CLICK MAGAZINE was this article by Austrian journalist Alfred Tyrnauer, who was no stranger to Nazi terror. The journalist explained quite clearly for his American readers who exactly Hermann Goering was, his shameless looting in all Nazi-occupied zones and the goings-on within Goering Works, the German re-armament trust.

Master crook, blackmailer and general villain Reichsmarshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, second most potent Nazi, ‘owns’ the world’s largest industrial empire by right of possession. Gross Goering has stopped at nothing, not even murder, to enrich himself and insure his future comfort, whether the Nazi regime stands or falls.

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John Barrymore (Coronet Magazine, 1951)
1951, Coronet Magazine, Hollywood History, Recent Articles

John Barrymore
(Coronet Magazine, 1951)

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John Barrymore (né John Sidney Blyth: 1882 – 1942) is said to have been one of America’s finest actors; co-star in an ensemble cast of thespians that consisted of his brother Lionel and sister Ethel, they were known around Broadway and Hollywood as the Barrymores. Today he is primarily known as the great-grandfather of Drew Barrymore (b. 1975). Although badly plagued by alcoholism, he managed to play his parts admirably – and those who knew him best both on the stage and off, remember him in this article.


A far more revealing article about Barrymore can be read here.

Stuart Davis: Thirty Years of Evolution (Art Digest, 1945)
1945, Modern Art, Recent Articles, The Art Digest

Stuart Davis: Thirty Years of Evolution
(Art Digest, 1945)

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A review of the Stuart Davis (1892 – 1964) retrospective that opened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the fall of 1945. The artist referred to his influences:

In my own case I have enjoyed the dynamic American scene for many years, and all my pictures (including the ones I painted in Paris) are referential to it. They all have their originating impulse in the impact of [the]contemporary American environment.

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James Beard on Cheese (Gentry Magazine, 1957)
1957, Food and Wine, Gentry Magazine, Recent Articles

James Beard on Cheese
(Gentry Magazine, 1957)

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It can be soft, hard, sweet, sour, hot, cold, pungent or bland.

It comes in various shapes and many colors.

It can be inodorous or effuvious.

It is known in every country, to every tongue.

Whatever its shape, hue, scent or nationality it is one of the most ancient,
most honorable of foods and it is called cheese.

A wise man once said A Meal Without Cheese is Like a Beautiful Woman with One Eye.

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Sholem Asch Warsaw ghetto | 1930s European Jews
1937, Jews in the 20th Century, The Literary Digest

Polish Jews Face Dismal Future
(Literary Digest, 1937)

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The old-style pogroms which made the life of Polish Jews a nightmare under the Czars have died out, yet the terror of Antisemitism still haunts their three million men, women and children, one-tenth of the country’s population.

Now they are a race apart, isolated, according to Sholem Asch (1880- 1957), a Yiddish writer who recently visited the country, like lepers. Young women in the Warsaw Ghetto look like dried skeletons, he says. Rickety children save scraps of bread from their free school lunches to feed their parents at night.

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Convicted Out of Her Own Mouth: The Record of German Crimes by H.W. Wilson
1917, H.W. Wilson, Poison Gas

Gassing as Crime
(H.W. Wilson, 1917)

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When the United States Congress declared war on Imperial Germany in April of 1917, the New York pamphleteer Halsey William Wilson (1868 – 1954) wasted little time in collecting a list of the numerous war crimes committed by the Germans up to that time in order to launch a mass printing of a 31 page pamphlet that would sell for five cents each. The heinous use of poison gas was listed on page nine.

Pro-Divorce Editorial by Rosalind Mae Guggenheim | Pro-Divorce Editorial by JANE BURR
1922, Miscellaneous, The English Review

‘Progressive Monogamy”
(The English Review, 1922)

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In her 1922 essay, Marriage, Jane Burr (né Rosalind Mae Guggenheim, 1882 – 1958) refers to the modern marriage as progressive monogamy. She writes knowingly about the blessings and damnation of matrimony and believed that the institution has only improved since we entered an age where unions between man and woman can be so easily dissolved.


Over the civilized globe there hangs this tragedy of women and this tragedy of men – those who are free longing for bondage, those who are in bondage longing for freedom, everybody searching for the pure white flame, yet everybody compromising with sordidness that could be avoided, if only a new attitude could be legitimized.

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A Pill Box in the Hürtgen Forest (Yank Magazine, 1944)
1944, Recent Articles, World War Two, Yank Magazine

A Pill Box in the Hürtgen Forest
(Yank Magazine, 1944)

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During the last miserable days of 1944 came this one page, first person account by a common American soldier marching through a shell-pocked German landscape. The fellow went to great effort to describe the general discomfort experienced by all those GIs privileged enough to be posted at the spearhead of that winter advance through the Hürtgen Forest. Halting in frozen rain and blinding winds, his platoon languished around a liberated Nazi pillbox where it was decided that each of them should enjoy a three hour respite inside to escape the cold. When it was our hero’s turn he explains how nice it was to be surrounded by four walls and a roof.


Click here to read about the mobile pill boxes of the Nazi army.

German Cavalry Memoir (Leslie's Weekly, 1915)
1915, Leslie's Weekly, Writing

German Cavalry Memoir
(Leslie’s Weekly, 1915)

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Fritz Arno Wagner (1894 – 1958) is best remembered as a pioneering cinematographer from the earliest days of the German film industry, however before he could gain the experiences necessary to become the director of photography for such films as Nosferatu, and Westfront he had to first fulfill his obligations to the Kaiser. This article is an account of his brief stint in the Hussars (ie. lancers) that he gave to the editor’s of Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly Newspaper. Although the article only covers his training period, it does give the reader a sense of what life was like for an enlisted man serving in one of highly prized regiments in the Imperial German Army.

It is believed that this magazine article was written during his days with Pathe News in New York.

Click here to read about the U.S. Navy railroad artillery of W.W. I.

German Cavalry Memoir (Leslie's Weekly, 1915)
1915, Leslie's Weekly, Writing

German Cavalry Memoir
(Leslie’s Weekly, 1915)

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Fritz Arno Wagner (1894 – 1958) is best remembered as a pioneering cinematographer from the earliest days of the German film industry, however before he could gain the experiences necessary to become the director of photography for such films as Nosferatu, and Westfront he had to first fulfill his obligations to the Kaiser. This article is an account of his brief stint in the Hussars (ie. lancers) that he gave to the editor’s of Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly Newspaper. Although the article only covers his training period, it does give the reader a sense of what life was like for an enlisted man serving in one of highly prized regiments in the Imperial German Army.

It is believed that this magazine article was written during his days with Pathe News in New York.

Click here to read about the U.S. Navy railroad artillery of W.W. I.

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