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- 27th Oct 1938 (Creation)
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Emily Overend Lorimer (1881-1949) was a British linguist, political analyst and author, She was a tutor in Germanic Philology at Somerville College Oxford ,1907-10, and editor of 'Basrah Times' 1916-17. She was with her husband, David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer, British resident in Cairo during the First World War and its Arab Revolt. She was an early translator and analyst of Nazi works, including Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in the 1920s and 1930s. She worked with her husband on Asian studies.
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"Some Points from Hitler's Philosophy; Views On Britain, Religion, Law and Justice, "Promoting the Victory of the Strong" By E.O. Lorimer, Formerly Tutor in Germanic Philology. Somerville College, Oxford". Newspaper article reprinted from the Welwyn Times of October 27, 1938 (with a few additions). Printed material with handwritten annotations at its head.
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- English