Word: feudality
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...lord to be tried by his peers was just as much the law during the reign of William the Conqueror as during the reign of King John. This custom originated in the early Middle Ages and was the right of every vassal (lord) that held his land by feudal contract...
This was comforting news for squadron commanders and Italian aviators, heartily weary of the overpublicized exploits of Il Duce's son-in-law, Count Ciano, but it was sad news for the World Press. Flung into a feudal land, correspondents in Addis Ababa and behind the Ethiopian troops have been able to send no first-hand news at all in eight weeks of warfare. Marshal Badoglio's order last week meant that all the elaborate mechanism of the international Press will take more time to tell the world less than did Editor Horace Greeley or Artist-Correspondent Winslow...
Even a few days before, mention of any such deal had provoked the Ethiopian Foreign Office to blasts of scorn. Last week the feudal Rases of Ethiopia were being sounded by Emperor Haile Selassie's confidential agents. Some of them reacted by demanding that His Majesty at once take the field and fight, as Ethiopian sovereigns always did in days of old. Instead, the Emperor sent Arks of the Covenant to encourage his troops (see p. 16) and talked of making only brief dashes to & from the front...
...Worlds, The Time Machine), Mr. Wells has pictured the world depopulated by interplanetary warfare, dominated by a monstrous chicken, consumed by bugs, perishing in foul air. In Things to Come mankind endures 30 years of war, a plague called the Wandering Sickness, a return to quasi-feudal society. After 1970, things pick up somewhat. A group of airmen band together, enforce peace and exercise a benevolent despotism. But by 2055, another revolution against peace, order and progress has broken...
...Japan all this mushroomed into such a boom as even the U. S. cannot remember. With thousands of overnight millionaires, a self-congratulatory middle-class with money and power was suddenly thrown among the feudal remnants of pre-War Japan. Its members invested in stucco villas and saxophones, art works and sex novels, phonographs, geisha girls and the best Scotch whiskey and earned the contemptuous nickname of nankin (chess pawns promoted by crossing the board). The fantasy lasted until 1923 when a 52 billion yen earthquake jolted Japan and proved a forerunner of Depression. Even today most moneyed Japanese...