Clare Boothe Luce (1903 - 1987), won a Republican seat
in the United States House
of Representatives in 1942, and became the US Ambassador to Italy in 1953.
of Representatives in 1942, and became the US Ambassador to Italy in 1953.
In 1940, she took a break from her playwriting career,
and travelled to Europe
to report for the publications her husband owned; Time & Life magazines.
to report for the publications her husband owned; Time & Life magazines.
Also in 1940 she published Europe in
the Spring, in which she comments that
sterilizing all Germans was an exceedingly popular suggestion, but impractical,
and that she was afraid, insufficiently political to maintain attention.
sterilizing all Germans was an exceedingly popular suggestion, but impractical,
and that she was afraid, insufficiently political to maintain attention.
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