Word: judah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomat, Dom Pedro understood something of kingship. Before he left Rome there was one more snapshot he wanted taken. It concerned another king, temporarily defeated but never humbled. Pedro directed his taxi to the spot in Rome where Mussolini had set up the golden statue of the Lion of Judah, captured at Addis Ababa. Now the statue was safely back in Africa in Haile Selassie's keeping. The spot in Rome was empty. King Pedro turned to his photographers. "Photograph that for me," he commanded...
...acre claim. On the surface were iron age remains, rather recent for the Holy Land. Below, the bronze age began. Father de Vaux believes that he may prove his city to be ancient Tirzah, first capital of the secessionist Kingdom of Israel, which Jeroboam split off from Judah after the death of Solomon about...
Prince Sahle Selassie (see cut), third son of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Conquering Lion of Judah, the Elect of God, the Light of the World...
...Benjamin Kaplan, was sentenced to life imprisonment for "discharging a firearm at His Majesty's forces.") In a turbulent three-day trial they shouted anti-British slogans from the dock, quoted Scripture (Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered . . .), chanted in unison "In blood and fire Judah fell; in blood and fire it will rise again," before they were shackled and led off to prison...
Haile Selassie's titles used to sound absurd when he was a deposed royal out cast - Power of Trinity I, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah. . . . Last week Haile Selassie arrived in Naples, a dignified, honored potentate passing through the beaten country of his onetime conquerors. Only the day before, another king had sailed out of the same harbor, bound for voluntary exile in Egypt.* The world could read the disgrace of the House of Savoy in the titles that the abdicated Italian king had just shed from his thin, aging shoulders - Vittorio Emanuele (Ferdinand Maria Gennaro...