Word: khans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middle East looks for development of the Nile sources and for rehabilitation of Mesopotamian irrigation works destroyed by the grandson of Genghis Khan 650 years ago and not yet restored. It can pay in minerals and fruit...
After six years of war, blockaded China is weaker economically and militarily than at any stage of the conflict with Japan. The country is in the throes of the worst inflation since the Sung Dynasty-in the Twelfth Century, just before the invasion of Genghis Khan, when rocketing prices in Peking would change between morning and evening. Malnutrition and privation are slowly undermining the vitality not only of the Army, but of the many intellectuals and younger office holders on whom China's future leadership largely depends. Inadequate material help from America and continued delay in the only quick...
...praise for being the first Viceroy to withstand the pressure of a Gandhi fast without budging an inch. It was considered more newsworthy but less important that Gandhi, thinner than ever, his head propped on pillows, had broken his fast with a glass of orange juice in the Aga Khan's palace. Gandhi, whom the world's press last week had almost forgotten to call "Mahatma" ("Great Soul") was again just a prisoner, held incommunicado and charged with inciting revolt in wartime...
...British Author Isaac Watts): When I Survey the Wondrous Cross. Each day he was massaged and cared for as tenderly as an incubator baby. Around his scrawny shoulders was a red and black checked homespun blanket. On the wall of his small, high-ceilinged room in the Aga Khan's gruesomely Victorian Palace in Poona was a Hindu calendar with the motto: "O Lord...
...gloom that engulfed India. In the fields the peasants laid aside their wooden plows. In mud-hut villages and princely palaces the talk was of Gandhi. Only the unbending British Raj would be blamed by millions of Indians if Gandhi died inside the guarded Palace of the Aga Khan at Poona...