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The slavery of 'standards': did ENS A do its work too well?

... The slavery of 'standards' did ENS A do its work too well BY SPIKE HUGHES Do YOU REMEMBER, during the war, a worthy body called ENSA? The initials stood for something illiterate like Entertain ments National Service Association, and the idea behind ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1578 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

A LAND DIVIDED

... varying severity since Indians were introduced to work the sugar plantations deserted by the Africans with the abolition of slavery in the last century. Whatever success may be achieved in repairing the already precarious economy further damaged by the prolonged ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 755 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

DIARY OF A LADY OF LIMITED LEISURE

... I swore that never would I not I drag in my waist, pad my hips, leave my shoulders undisguisedly sloping, return to the slavery of femininity which, like the rest of my generation, I had never experienced. What, I asked myself and others not once but ...

Published: Wednesday 15 September 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 900 | Page: 70 | Tags: Photographs 

PERSONALITIES

... following the Italian defeat, and this year. marks the tenth anniversary of his far-reaching reforms, under which he abolished slavery and serfdom completely. ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 322 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

FURTHER OUTLOOK-STORMY: The work of Pope John

... troubled planet, must be set alongside the gloomier factors to which I may seem some times a little too eager to draw attention. Slavery was wicked. To end it, and to compel the Southern States that wished to retain it to remain within the Union and submit to ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1071 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

A SURVEY of the FOREIGN NEWS in PICTURES: General Ridgway at Utah Beach; Reburying Aragon's Kings; Moussadek at ..

... Aragon in medieval times, with its many Muhammadans living under Christian rule, was a home of unmodified predial slavery, whereas slavery disappeared in Castile and Leon in the thirteenth century, and so it remained right down to the Bourbon dynasty. ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1066 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

KING SAUD IN AMERICA: The Arabian Monarch's Controversial State Visit to the United States

... refused to have anything to do with the reception for the lang. Mr. Wagner, the Mayor, referred scathingly to a fellow who says slavery is legal and that in his country our air force cannot use Jewish men and cannot permit any Roman Catholic chaplains to say ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 517 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

AMERICANA: SPEECH-MAKING RECORD-BREAKING AND TELEVISING

... taxation and reckless spending, and said that one group stood for retrenchment of autocratic power, the j Socialist state and slavery. The United States, he said, was ruled by nothing but expediency. TRUMAN IN DETROIT 60,000 listen to the Presi dent's speech ...

Published: Saturday 11 August 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 495 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

THE AMERICAN TROOPS AT BREMERHAVEN: The Vanguard of the 4th Infantry Division Welcomed in the German Port

... the troops of the 4th Division and to tell them, among other things, that the West would never buy peace at the price of slavery. You are with us, General Juin told the 1,100 troops standing on the quay in the rain, in your place in the advance guard ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 586 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

THE VOICE OF THE COMMON WEALTH: WEST INDIES

... forward in Dr. Eric Williams's book Capitalism and Slavery that emancipation in 1833 was not an act of humanitarian enlightenment, but one of cynical disillusionment that the British only ended slavery when the islands were already on the decline econo ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2596 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs