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...King and I. Charming Rodgers & Hammerstein period musical, with Gertrude Lawrence; how the King of Siam learned to govern from a governess (TIME, April...
...peace contract" (not a treaty) will be signed with Germany if the Bonn government agrees to contribute troops to the European army and to share the Ruhr's coal and steel under the Schuman plan. The peace contract would go far toward restoring to the Germans full rights over their own affairs. There would be certain safeguards. The Allies will retain the rights 1) to station troops in Germany, though these would become defense forces instead of occupying troops; 2) to settle all questions about Germany's frontiers, precluding any attempt by Germany to make separate deals with...
...Moslems defeated both, swept forward so rapidly that they could not possibly stop to convert or even to govern the people they conquered. They applied the Aylah treatment: tribute and religious freedom. In some periods, the tribute from unbelievers poured in so fast that the Caliphs were not interested a conversion. The religious leaders of Islam formed a body called the Ulema, learned in the Koran and the Sharia [law]. They tended to be manuscript-eaters, verbal hair-splitters, not a type useful in missionary work. So far as the official religious leadership was concerned, the victories of Islam might...
...Albert surprised the stout burghers of Ostend as the first allied soldier to enter that Belgian city on the heels of the fleeing Germans). But he never forgot the lesson his autocratic grandfather and predecessor Leopold I had learned through hard experience: in Belgium, a King is supposed to govern, not to rule. Albert's son, Leopold III, the father of Baudouin, tended to forget it. But with Leopold's abdication and young Baudouin's succession, the Royal Question seemed at last settled. "The crisis is dead," said one observer. "Long live the King...
...Third Force, France's rambling, diffuse coalition of center parties, will probably continue to govern, as best it can (it will need votes from Independents...