we are very glad to share really great Betty MacDonald fan club news with you.
You'll be able to see several
fascinating family photos including Betty MacDonald's grandmother Gammy
in Betty MacDonald fan club newsletter March.
Brigitte, dear you talked about two very strange ladies.
Who is the second one?
You only mentioned Dorita Hess.
Thank you so much in advance for your info.
We are looking for two very important personalities who are going to celebrate their birthday during March.
Several Betty MacDonald fan club fans seem to have some troubles regarding the names of these two personalities.
Brigitte, dear you talked about two very strange ladies.
Who is the second one?
You only mentioned Dorita Hess.
Thank you so much in advance for your info.
We are looking for two very important personalities who are going to celebrate their birthday during March.
Several Betty MacDonald fan club fans seem to have some troubles regarding the names of these two personalities.
Most of them only mention one personality but there are two of them.
Think it over, please.
The other personality we are looking for was a very good friend of our beloved author.
Tell us the names please and you could be our next winner.
Tell us the names please and you could be our next winner.
Betty MacDonald fan club founder Wolfgang Hampel
and Betty MacDonald fan club research team are going to share very
interesting info on ' Betty MacDonald and the movie The Egg and I '.
Betty MacDonald fan club exhibition will be fascinating with the international book editions and letters by Betty MacDonald.
It isn't very compliacted too to know the names of Betty MacDonald's and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle birthday guests. Hurry up, please.
You can win our new Betty MacDonald documentary.
We hope Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mr. Tigerli will be back soon with new adventures.
Is this entry ESC 2016 winner?
Betty MacDonald fan club ESC fans from 5 continents will be able to vote for Betty MacDonald fan club ESC 2016 winner.
More info are coming soon.
I bet we'll have a great Betty MacDonald fan club ESC event.
Wishing you a very nice Thursday,
Ole
Betty MacDonald fan club exhibition will be fascinating with the international book editions and letters by Betty MacDonald.
It isn't very compliacted too to know the names of Betty MacDonald's and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle birthday guests. Hurry up, please.
You can win our new Betty MacDonald documentary.
We hope Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mr. Tigerli will be back soon with new adventures.
Is this entry ESC 2016 winner?
Betty MacDonald fan club ESC fans from 5 continents will be able to vote for Betty MacDonald fan club ESC 2016 winner.
More info are coming soon.
I bet we'll have a great Betty MacDonald fan club ESC event.
Wishing you a very nice Thursday,
Ole
Don't miss this very special book, please.
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Rita Knobel Ulrich - Islam in Germany - a very interesting ZDF ( 2nd German Television ) documentary with English subtitles
The situation in Germany and Sweden with many refugees is rather difficult.
Betty MacDonald Fan Club proudly presents:
The amazing, very witty, charming, intelligent story written by our brilliant Betty MacDonald Fan Club Honor Member - artist and writer Letizia Mancino.
WHEN YOU DREAM, DREAM BIG
Copyright 2011/2016 by Letizia Mancino
All rights reserved
Translated by D. Tsiaprakas
Betty, I love you! Your books „Anybody can do anything“ and „Onions in the Stew“ are really outstanding! I take them into my hand, and at a stone's throw I am right away in America ! Columbus and the egg: The great discovery!
Your bestseller „The Egg and I“ the greatest discovery. And you and I! I know America: It's true what you are writing: That's America: Absolutely right! No, even to the least detail! The landscape and the passion: Do you know the country where pistols blossom? Brava, Betty, you are describing the Americans vividly, genuinely, insufferably, brushed upon paper. If I like to read your works? To read doesn't even express it! I can even hear and see everything: Nature, culture, subculture.
America has almost remained unchanged! O those cool Americans! Calculating, stockmarket, Wall Street, the financial crisis (even back in 1930), the gamblers, the bankruptcy of companies! The swarming of dodgers and cheaters. People left without money. Dispair und hunger! A terrible „Worst Case“ (when I knew but little English I thought it is sausage with cheese).
Still how impressive is the ability to adaptone self of the Americans: They know how to enjoy life, acrobats of survival! In the twinkle of an eye they achieved to adapt themselves and effect the work of pioneers: In the morning you are a cleaningwoman, in the evening a brothel woman! No problem!
„The insufficient, here it's becoming an event; The indescribable, here it's done;“ Mary Bard Jensen, your sister, was the treasure trove of procuring work: My word, what a power woman with unlimited imagination! She has recommended you everywhere: Betty can do everything, also write novels! Go ahead, sister, hurry up! The editor wants to see your manuscripts! Up to that point you had not written a single line! Wow! And if still everything goes wrong? No problem: When you dream, dream big!
Just look, you have become famous.The Egg and I You know that, Betty? I'll slip into „The Egg and I“ and come and be your guest! I want to get to know your chickens. I hate chickens! I'm a chickens slave from North America! O Betty, without these damned animals, no chance of you becoming famous! „The Egg and I“ you would never have written! How many readers you have made happy!
Your book is so amusing! Your witty fine (almost nasty) remarks about your family members and roundabout neighbours made me laugh so much! You have been born into a special family: Comfort was not desired: I can't but be amazed: What did your father say to your mother? After tomorrow I am going to work elsewhere: Thousands of miles away...He sent her a telegram: LEAVING FOR TWO YEARS ON THURSDAY FOR MEXICO CITY STOP GET READY IF YOU WANT TO COME ALONG – That was on Monday. Mother wired back: SHALL BE READY, and so she was.That's America! Improvisation, change, adventure. You show no weakness: Let's go! Your descriptions, Betty, about the tremendous happenings in nature have deeply frightened me.
Continent America, I'm terrified by you! I feel so small and threatened like a tiny fly before an enormous flyswatter! Your novel is very many-sided! The reader may use it even as a cook book! „The Egg and I“ starts straight away with a recipe: „Next to the wisdom that lamb meat doesn't taste good unless it has been roasted with garlic“. Do you enjoy the American food?
O Betty, it's too fatty for me and I hate garlic! (Betty is presently cooking lunch for Bob. She's continually talking to „STOVE“: STOVE is Bob's rival; in the beginning I thought it was being himself). She turns round and says: Well, so no garlic for you. No lamb either, Betty. I don't eat any meat! I'd actually prefer only fried eggs. Betty, let me make them myself. Then you try it!
Blow! „STOVE“ out of order! I don't succeed in turning it on! Damned! It's got more of a mind of its own than „STOVE“ of my friend, Hilde Domin! Bob's coming! He must eat directly! „Men eat anything, the swines! Says your grandmother Gammy“. Is it true? Do you like my chickens? Bob asked me without introducing himself. Yes, Bob (rude) I love them! I'm vegetarian. Do you want to clean the henhouse with me tomorrow? A, you're always getting up so early at four o'clock! Bob, that's not a job for me! He looked at me disdainfully! A Roman cissy! You need a reeducation at once! Help, Bob's attacking me! I rather change the novel immediately and move to the „Island“!
Sweden has found itself in the unusual position of being in the international spotlight in recent months.
Checks on the border with Denmark, accusations of migrant sex assaults being covered up, a killing in an asylum centre and an anti-corruption investigation into a senior politician are just some of the stories that have made headlines.The minority government, which includes the Green Party, was elected in September 2014, and since then has been faced with managing a migrant crisis that has impacted sharply on public opinion.
A January poll put the governing centre-left Social Democrats on its lowest ratings since surveys began in 1967.
"Since the election it has been a horrifying journey," said Marja Lemne, a political scientist at the University of Stockholm.
Prime Minister Stefan Lofven once declared that "My Europe doesn't build walls." But only months later Sweden introduced border checks as it struggled to cope with up to 10,000 new arrivals every week.
Rise of anti-immigration party
More than 160,000 asylum seekers arrived in Sweden in 2015, more per capita than any other country in Europe, and far more than officials had predicted.Magnus Hagevi, an associate professor of political science at Linnaeus University, said it is hard to judge whether a different government would have fared any better in the circumstances, but what made the current government's position particularly susceptible to criticism is the disparity between what it originally said and its current policies.
The prime minister made a speech earlier this week which focused on issues which are more traditionally associated with the Social Democrats: Care for the elderly, education and social welfare.
Jonas Hinnfors, a professor of political science at Gothenburg University, says the governing parties have also underestimated the importance of issues they have traditionally focused on, such as unemployment, welfare and schools.
He says the decline in support for the Social Democrats is part of a long-term trend, with voters being attracted to the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, which is now the third biggest party in Sweden.
A more recent polls, however, suggested that tougher rhetoric from the government and the main opposition Moderate party was having the effect of reducing support for the Sweden Democrats.
Bad communication?
Interior Minister Anders Ygeman recently caused a stir saying Sweden may reject the asylum applications of up to 80,000 migrants and should prepare to deport them.His comments sounded harsh and some commentators put it down to a clumsy attempt at explaining how the asylum system worked.
"It might have been bad communication or he could have done it on purpose," says Mr Hinnfors.
"Who was the intended recipient of the message? Did he think of it in terms of we have to tell the general public that we are dealing with these issues, let's frame it in a slightly crude way. We come up with the 80,000 and it sounds like we are going to expel people."
Issues preoccupying the government do not begin and end with migration - among other things, there are warnings of a house price crash and the ongoing investigation into whether there was any impropriety in the way Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom obtained a flat in Stockholm.
But few observers doubt that the way political leaders handle the migrant crisis will be of huge importance to their reputation, and the way voters respond, in the months and years ahead.
Sweden and migration
More than 160,000 asylum seekers arrived in Sweden in 2015, more per capita than any other country in EuropeBy contrast, from 1850 to the 1930s, 1.5 million people emigrated
In the decades following World War Two, migrants seeking work arrived from Italy, Greece, Balkan countries and Turkey
The rise of asylum seekers began in the 1980s when Sweden saw some of its highest immigration from the Arab world, Eritrea and Somalia, as well as South American countries with repressive governments
The 1990s conflicts in the Balkans brought massive immigration, with over 100,000 Bosnians being granted asylum alongside 3,600 Kosovo Albanians
Every sixth person of the current Swedish population was born in another country
Besides numbers, the debate focuses on how best to integrate migrants from different countries into the Swedish workforce and society.
Source: Sweden official website
More: Listen to Keith Moore's documentary Europe: Strangers on My Doorstep - A Swedish Tale.
