Word: barone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the death of Baron Keynes of Tilton, the world mourns the loss of a poet-philosopher statesman. A position, an influence, an intellectual depth and vigor unrivalled in the modern world were his; his, too, was an ability to commit his thought, often abstruse, into solutions for the concrete working problems of society...
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...sweetness & light dispensed, the Baron hurried off with the moody Van Mook and three Indonesian representatives to isolated St. Hubertus Lodge in Holland's De Hooge Veluwe National Park. In the secluded hunting estate, the conferees wrestled with the last loose ends of an agreement which had been fashioned in preliminary Java meetings. The stubborn Dutch and fanatic Indonesians had found a middle ground. Indonesia would become an autonomous "full and equal" partner with The Netherlands, Surinam and Curaçao, under the Dutch crown...
...nearly done, Baron Inverchapel of Loch Eck could look forward to relaxing in his ancestral home in Argyll, Scotland with his paints, his books and his inevitable Scotch & water, before taking up his next assignment as Ambassador...
...parties, wrangled for 466 parliamentary seats. They ranged from sturdy Kenshin Izumi of the Buddhist priesthood, which recently organized for politics, to efficient Miss Shidzue Yamaguchi, a typist sponsored by Christian Leader Toyohiko Kagawa. A few Communists had been stoned. The Communists had mobbed the residence of Premier Baron Kijuro Shidehara. One radical had even called the Emperor "that guy," a bit of new liberty the legality of which was under study by the high courts...