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...himself, but all to no purpose. "His adamant heart did not melt. The master completed the transaction." Nepal is about the size of Florida, contains about 5,500,000 people and is an entirely independent country on the north frontier of the Indian Empire. The Maharaja is not a despot, as has been circulated in the daily press. The Government is in the hands of a military oligarchy, but all political power is in the hands of a Prime Minister and that office appears to be hereditary in the family of His Highness Maharaja Sir Chandra Shumshere Jung, Bahadur Rana...
...Transvaal. The Dutch were there first, but Rhodes went in with them. Soon he controlled a huge combination ? De Beers Mining Co., British South Africa Co. and Gold Fields of South Africa Co. He became Prime Minister of the Cape Town Colony, which he governed as a benevolent despot, even strengthening the British grip on lower Africa with a vision in his head of "Africa British, from Cape Town to Cairo...
...Highness Sidi Mohammed el Habib Bey, usually called the Bey of Tunis?a sovereign prince. While the French have established schools, stimulated production and industry, improved finances, they have been unable to secure to the natives any political rights. Thus, in theory, the Bey is an absolute despot...
Reparations, had a terse word to say to photographers who had conceived it to be their duty to dog his footsteps. As Mr. Gilbert is possessed with powers that might turn an absolute despot green with envy, Paris photographers decided to treat him as royalty and "snap" him with that regularity that attends their attitude toward visiting monarchs...
...boyhood, in a street whose name carries such associations, cannot fail to have an influence! Freud has become an emperor, one around whom legends begin to accrete, who holds enlightened but absolute sway in his realm and is animated by a rigid sense of duty. He has become a despot who will not tolerate the slightest deviation from his doctrine; holds councils behind closed doors; and tries to ensure, by a sort of pragmatic sanction, that the body of psychoanalytical teaching shall remain an indivisible whole...