Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"More in Sorrow." In a recent lecture on "The British Empire Today," Soviet Historian I. M. Lemin was even more lucid about the White Man's Burden (Yankee-style): "The Soviet Union does not constitute a threat to the British Empire. . . . We do not want to intervene in Britain...
Nowadays, whenever Britain's imperial eye turns south towards Africa, there stands Zik astride a large slice of rich Nigerian cocoa and palm nut holdings, coal and tin and bauxite deposits. Zik has a handhold on a rich chunk of the Empire and he will not let go.
Most Japanese regard Katayama as a not-too-strong, neutral character-"neither poison nor medicine"-and doubt that his Cabinet will do much. The new coalition has already made its unhappy mark on protocol-happy Imperial Household officials. At this week's formal investiture, several Ministers showed up without...
Harold Lloyd, callow comic of the silents (and star of Preston Sturges' forthcoming The Sin of Harold Diddlebock), was elected Imperial Chief Rabban of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Died. Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, 72, hard-bitten onetime chief of the British Imperial General Staff, outstanding tactician of World War I, a great believer in mechanized, mobile warfare; in Lymington, Hants, England.