Word: feudality
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...reference to the distinction between the "Native States," each ruled by a feudatory prince like the speaker, and "British India," ruled directly by the Viceroy. The latter is a political sea in which the former are feudal islands...
Significance. The Princes and the Untouchables (not one of whom uttered a word to the Conference last week) may be expected to side with His Majesty's Government no matter what happens; the Princes because they are dependent on British might to maintain their position of feudal splendor in the face of democratic trends; the Untouchables because, although championed by St. Gandhi, they still feel that India's democratic trend has not gone far enough to protect them from oppression by the higher castes, they look to Britain for whatever protection they are likely to receive...
...reaching the wrong conclusions. This I cannot definitely say as yet, but while it is almost impossible to overstate the degree of suffering, even starvation, to be found among many parts of the population; and while no condemnation could be too severe for the selfish villainy of the feudal war lords, we must not lose sight of a proper perspective in the judging of these evils relatively to China as a whole...
Certainly the new Emperor is the greatest Abyssinian ruler of modern times. Grandeur and a fine sensitiveness are blended in his person. He is educating likely Abyssinian youths at schools and colleges throughout the world, but particularly in the U. S. His way with the priestly and feudal classes, bitter foes of modernization, can only be called masterly. Little by little, as he can, he is introducing farm machinery, building roads, waking up a land which has slept for 5,000 years. For his Coronation on Nov. 2 he decreed this striking ceremony: the people to stand all night...
This reckless, blustering young aristocrat is one of the closest friends of Aus-trian-born Adolf Hitler, Fascist bogyman of Germany. His castle, moldering and feudal Schloss Waxenberg perched on a crag above Linz, is well stocked with rifles, machine guns, ammunition.* Prince von Starhemberg in fine is the chieftain of Austria's irregular and reactionary Heimwehr, well drilled veterans of numerous bloody clashes with the equally irregular Socialist Schutzbund (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929 et seq.). That Monsignor Seipel and all he stands for should want Prince von Starhemberg to be Minister of Interior is a fact with the pregnancy...