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Dorothy Thompson

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Dorothy Evelyn Thompson (29 May 1888 – 2 December 1961) was an English mountaineer known for her climbs in the Alps. Thompson was born in Kensington to Frederick Charles Thompson and Eleanor Frances (née Wilson). Her parents were frequent hill walkers and she began climbing in Perthshire as a child on family holidays. She joined the Fell and Rock Climbing Club in 1919, while working as a secretary for the School of Oriental Studies in Bloomsbury. She began climbing with the Fell and Rock Climbing Club in Corsica and the Pyrenees before her first trip to the Alps in 1920, when she met Joseph Georges, who would become her climbing partner for many years. In 1929 she became the first woman to ascend Mont Blanc via the Brouillard Ridge. In 1934 she climbed Mont Blanc via the Aiguille de Bionassay, and became the first person to descend the mountain via the Peuteret Ridge. Thompson completed a book of her climbing memoirs after the Second World War, but only published it privately. She died in Heathfield, East Sussex, in 1961. After her death, her friends and the Ladies' Alpine Club published her memoirs, titled Climbing with Joseph Georges, in 1962. References

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“Having first robbed the Jews, the Nazis are beginning to rob the Church, and later will almost certainly expropriate what is left of the bourgeoisie property.”
— "On the Record" Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, PA) (March 6, 1939)
“The people were to 'awaken' and Hitler's movement was going to vote dictatorship in! In itself a fascinating idea. Imagine a would-be dictator setting out to persuade a sovereign people to vote away their rights.”
— p. 4
“A great many people say that there is a great battle going on in the world: between Fascism and Communism. Fascism is represented as Capitalism in its ultimate and final form, when it controls the state wholly. Communism is represented as the final expression of democracy. But this theory was invented by fascists and communists. To a democrat, looking on, it seems like a sham battle.”
— pp. 29-30
“The object of liberty is to give men and women a chance to be their best selves. That is its first and last purpose.”
— p. 77
“For Adolf Hitler's first hatred was not Communism, but Austria-Hungary. Read 'Mein Kampf.' And he loathed it for what? For its tolerance! He wanted eighty million Germans to rule with an iron hand an empire of eighty million 'inferiors' — Czechs, Slovaks, Magyars, Jews, Serbs, Poles and Croats.”
— p. 136, "Write it Down" February 18, 1938)
“No citizen should be permitted to become a member of or contribute to any organization whose members are pledged, or have ever been pledged, to tender prior loyalty to any state other than the United States, or to defend any state other than the United States in case of war, except as in such a war the United States might formally be allied with another power.”
— p. 16

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Dorothy Thompson: American journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961) · CEO of Drax Group (born 1960) · social historian (1923-2011)

Notable quotes

“Having first robbed the Jews, the Nazis are beginning to rob the Church, and later will almost certainly expropriate what is left of the bourgeoisie property.”
— "On the Record" Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, PA) (March 6, 1939)
“The people were to 'awaken' and Hitler's movement was going to vote dictatorship in! In itself a fascinating idea. Imagine a would-be dictator setting out to persuade a sovereign people to vote away their rights.”
— p. 4
“A great many people say that there is a great battle going on in the world: between Fascism and Communism. Fascism is represented as Capitalism in its ultimate and final form, when it controls the state wholly. Communism is represented as the final expression of democracy. But this theory was invented by fascists and communists. To a democrat, looking on, it seems like a sham battle.”
— pp. 29-30
“The object of liberty is to give men and women a chance to be their best selves. That is its first and last purpose.”
— p. 77
“For Adolf Hitler's first hatred was not Communism, but Austria-Hungary. Read 'Mein Kampf.' And he loathed it for what? For its tolerance! He wanted eighty million Germans to rule with an iron hand an empire of eighty million 'inferiors' — Czechs, Slovaks, Magyars, Jews, Serbs, Poles and Croats.”
— p. 136, "Write it Down" February 18, 1938)
“No citizen should be permitted to become a member of or contribute to any organization whose members are pledged, or have ever been pledged, to tender prior loyalty to any state other than the United States, or to defend any state other than the United States in case of war, except as in such a war the United States might formally be allied with another power.”
— p. 16

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Dorothy Evelyn Thompson (29 May 1888 – 2 December 1961) was an English mountaineer known for her climbs in the Alps. Thompson was born in Kensington to Frederick Charles Thompson and Eleanor Frances (née Wilson). Her parents were frequent hill walkers and she began climbing in Perthshire as a child on family holidays. She joined the Fell and Rock Climbing Club in 1919, while working as a secretary for the School of Oriental Studies in Bloomsbury. She began climbing with the Fell and Rock Climbing Club in Corsica and the Pyrenees before her first trip to the Alps in 1920, when she met Joseph Georges, who would become her climbing partner for many years. In 1929 she became the first woman to ascend Mont Blanc via the Brouillard Ridge. In 1934 she climbed Mont Blanc via the Aiguille de Bionassay, and became the first person to descend the mountain via the Peuteret Ridge. Thompson completed a book of her climbing memoirs after the Second World War, but only published it privately. She died in Heathfield, East Sussex, in 1961. After her death, her friends and the Ladies' Alpine Club published her memoirs, titled Climbing with Joseph Georges, in 1962. References

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).