My post will show soon but I didn't name the book I was posting about. It's 'In The Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson.

Tang's ok. and is remindful of William E. Dodd, U.S. ambassador to Germany in the 1930's. In Erik Larson's new book about Dodd and his family in Germany at the time. Larson Shows us a very hard working man. and verfy smart man and one of simple tastes who was appalled at the "opulence' (that) abraded every principle of the Jeffersonian ideal that Dodd had embraced throughout his life.

Dodd had made it known before his arrival that he wanted 'modest quarters in a modest hotel' " but an embassy official had booked him into The Esplanade, and into rooms that made his family "gasp at  such magnificence". (At the time, the state department and the embassy weremost;y full of monied officials who looked down on Dodd and made fun of him

"Dodd walked from the Esplanade to his office each morning, a 15 minute stroll along the Tiergartenstrasse ... a photograph of Dodd at work in his office during his first week or so in Berlin shows him seated at a large, elaborately carved desk before a soaring tapestry hung on the wall behind him, with a large complicated phone to his left at a reach of maybe 5 feet. There is something comical about the image: Dodd slight of frame , his collar stiff...utterly dwarfed by the opulence that surrounds him. The photograph caused a good deal of mirth back at the State Department ...

At every turn Dodd seemed to viol;ate some aspect of embassy custom, at least in the eyes of his counselor of embassy, George Gordon. Dodd insisted on walking to meetings with government officials. Once, when paying a call on the nearby Spanish embassy, he made Gordon walk with him , both men dressed in morning coats and silk hats. In a letter to (writer) Thornton Wilder (Dodd's wife) Martha wrote that 'Gordon had rolled in the gutter in an apoplectic fit.' When Dodd drove anywhere, he took the family's Chevrolet, no match for the Opels and Mercedeses favored by senior Reich officials ...July 24, (Dodd) committed a particularly egregious sin". He met with a visiting U.S. congressman in the office of Messersmith.,  America's counsul general for Germany. Gordon refused to attend. "The reason: pure pique. In Gordon's view, Dodd had "degraded" himself and his post by stooping to attend a meeting in an office of aman of inferior rank. Dodd observed in his diary, "Gordon is an industrious career man with punctilio developed to the nth degree".

Faciinating book and riveting book about the Dodd family's time in Germany. This "mild mannered professor from Chicago brings along his wife, son and flamboyant daughter" into what they believed would be an important realm and it was but turned into a nightmare. You really can' t put this book down.

This is what happens when you take on a far left government. You create two classes, a working class and a ruling class. Read Marx, Middle Class must be destroyed in order to promote equality. Thats what leftists want.

What wonders communism has done for the equality of Man in those totalitarian states, no?

Doesn't the Queen of England wipe thy own royal tush? And with all of the royal potpourie, the tiny little hint of queenlyness surely is scented by he discriminating nose. Oh, dear.