Word: khans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adolf Hitler entertained at Berchtesgaden the then President of the Assembly of the League of Nations. That gentleman, the swank-loving, multimillionaire Aga Khan, was impressed. After Munich he wrote to the London Times predicting there would be no war. When the Blitzkrieg struck Flanders the Aga Khan and his beauteous Begum (rated No. 5 among the ten best-dressed women in the world) fled from a French spa, not to Britain but to Switzerland. In Geneva last week the Aga Khan was no longer able to get money transferred from his bank accounts in London, Bombay and Cairo...
Part of the Aga Khan's racing stable has already been dispersed. (In December he sold four horses for fancy prices to Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer and the beasts were shipped to the U. S. on a Cunarder with 125 German refugees.) Last week a U. S. syndicate (including James Cox Brady, Walter P. Chrysler Jr., Sylvester W. Lebrot and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt) bought his great horse Bahrain, which won the Derby in 1935, for a reported price of $160,000. So last week the vexed and impoverished Aga Khan took up a less expensive sport-mountain climbing. Said...
...Jerusalem meanwhile, the Aga Khan's energetic son Aly Khan broadcast an appeal to all Mohammedans: "Help Britain with all your energy. Religious freedom has received what appears to be a death sentence in those countries which have fallen under totalitarian regimes, whereas it exists untrammeled in all Mohammedan countries where there is British influence...
...course of this cultural marathon Persia had ups & downs. She was conquered successively by the Greeks, Arabs and Mongols; she was sideswiped by nearly every artistic bandwagon that rumbled through Europe and Asia. But though her artists copied Genghis Khan's Chinese painters, Greek sculpture and the primitives of 14th-Century Italians, they made their Persian versions as characteristically Persian as an Isfahan carpet. The Persians concentrated on decoration, distorted their figures and landscapes into semi-abstract patterns, prized neatly filled space more than neatly copied nature...
...Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, wants to talk over troublesome Indian problems with Mohandas K. Gandhi, the revered Mahatma will usually arrange to call on His Excellency at New Delhi. Not so obliging is another Indian leader named Mirza Ali Khan, better known as the Fakir...