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...Englishmen mean by freedom? They tacitly assumed that it meant something like dominion status. And that perhaps was all that India asked. But this spring, if a speculative reporter asked an Englishman whether he was prepared to give India complete freedom, whether he was willing that neither the King-Emperor nor any other Englishman should have any rule or special rights whatever in the subcontinent of India, it was quite apparent that the average Englishman had never even thought of such a thing...
...nearly three centuries Malta was ruled by the Knights of St. John, called the Knights of Malta after they were chased from Rhodes by the Turks and were handed Malta by the Holy Roman Emperor in 1530. Originally Phoenicians, the Maltese have seen Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Aragonese, Italians and French come & go; they have not seen the British, who got Malta after Napoleon's hash was settled, go yet. Up to World War II, Malta's greatest siege was that of 1565, when Grand Master of the Knights Jean de La Valette, for whom the island...
...Empire's power was manifest. The war might be long, as Premier Tojo warned, but the tide of defeat had turned and was now a thunderous southward surge of victory. The Emperor had even deigned to show himself, astride his white horse, to receive the banzais of his subjects. In the parks of Tokyo, the people thrilled to brass bands blaring the fervent strains of Kimigayo...
Josephus and the Emperor is sultry with wars, murders, double & triple- intrigues, early Christians, rape, weird religious rites, living burials and the intangible mood of desperation that pervaded late Roman society. There are memorable pictures of candidly dissolute Empress Lucia, who goes in for young intellectuals; of Norbanus, head of the secret police, who murders Domitian just before Domitian gets around to murdering him. There is Domitian himself, worrying about his place in history; tossing doles to the masses when he feels his popularity waning; plotting how to destroy the last liberties of the Senate. Against these monstrous Romans...
...Angel Street -is a psychiatric case history written as a horror story. Its victim, George Harvey Bone, is a big, bewildered Englishman who suffers from "dead moods." Textbooks would call him a schizophrenic. When George meets Netta, a beauty who has the torpid heartlessness of a late Roman Emperor, he collapses into a state of slavery which is emotionally uninhabitable. When Netta and her friends persecute George, just for the fun of it, his "spells," once mere vacant withdrawals from life, blossom into aggressive daydreams of murder...