Word: feudality
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...Safety. General Giraud was dealing with a delicate and potentially troublesome situation. Tunisia's 2,300,000 Moslem Arabs and Bedouins look with feudal reverence to the Bey as their spiritual and temporal lord. Of all French North African Moslems, the Tunisians are the most politically conscious, most resentful of their status as the political inferiors of Tunisia's 110,000 resident French, 95,000 Italians...
Deported to Germany from his Nazi-occupied feudal seigniory in the English Channel was U.S.-born Robert Woodward Hathaway, Seigneur of Sark by his 1929 marriage to the Dame of Sark...
Writer and War Worker. Popular, friendly, publicity-shunning, William Hervey Allen is a man of many parts. Money in the bank is anathema to him, so proceeds from Anthony Adverse went into realizing Allen's feudal dream of a self-sustaining family unit. With his wife Ann and three children (Marcia, 13; Mary Ann, ii; Richard, 6) he built on Maryland's Eastern Shore "one of the most complete family plants in the world," making bread from his own wheat, wine from his own grapes. Cows, hens and the waters of an inlet from Chesapeake Bay supply...
More than 2,000 years ago in feudal China, the powerful state of Ts'in dominated six weaker kingdoms. Ts'in conceived the principle of lien-heng, and moved to swallow up its neighbors. The weaker kingdoms gave only lip service to their pledges of ho-tsung, failed to band themselves together for mutual protection. One by one they were attacked and destroyed by the kingdom...
...thrilled I was by the detailed review of that book by Georges Bernanos in the Religion department [TIME, Oct. 5]. He is a Frenchman in the spirit of his great tradition which started not in 1791 but in the feudal days when the spirit of France shot up and gushed forth like a fountain. That "honor and sainthood are his two absolutes" reminds me of that French sea captain in Conrad's Lord Jim, who on diagnosing Jim's trouble in the Patna affair, finishes "the honor, monsieur! . . . The honor . . . that is real" and goes away-his shabby...