Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dutch voices here in Java are quick to blame their own "woodenheaded" Parliament for its inability to roll with the punches in imperial British style. Many admit that the freedom movement had not been "made in Japan" (however much it was nurtured by Tokyo). President Soekarno had openly collaborated with...
Born in Bengal of an Anglo-Indian family, Orwell was a scholarship student at Eton (where he "learned as nearly as possible nothing"), served for five years in Burma as a member of the Indian Imperial Police, fought and was severely wounded in the Spanish Civil War as a member...
Hence the whole line of investigation was solely speculative, and "table-top seismology" with pencil and paper Leet admitted was very uncertain. It was not that the scientists were unable to make a beginning and to define the problem in physical and mathematical terms, but the actual test proved as...
Officially, Sir Archibald's mission will be "to help in the attainment of an amicable . . . settlement" between the squabbling Dutch and Indonesians. Unofficially, his ticklish task will be to extricate Britain soon from an imperial mess. For services rendered and expected, he was raised to the peerage this week...
Uproar, Silence. Next day, correspondents and photographers jammed into the opening session of the conference in the Throne Room, whither princes of the Japanese imperial blood once came to receive their Korean vassals. Shaggy Koreans crept between the chairs, stood on benches, snapped hundreds of pictures. A few appeared as...