Word: khans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brother, however, was missing -Pakistan's burly Liaquat Ali Khan. Liaquat had refused to come to London unless he got a promise that the conference would formally consider the long-smoldering dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, where, after two years of futile attempts at negotiation, Indian and Pakistani troops still face each other belligerently across an uneasy U.N. cease-fire line. By tradition, Commonwealth conferences do not concern themselves with disputes among members, but all the ministers were eager to bring the ninth brother into the fold. Attlee fired off messages to Liaquat offering informal discussion...
...agrarian reformer" (as the U.S. State Department had called him), nor a "town-meeting democrat" (as Owen Lattimore had called him), nor a Tito faithless to Moscow (as London and Washington had hoped). The Mao who spoke through Wu was China's most successful warlord since Kublai Khan. He laid down the terms for all Asia's subjugation. Upon that, Mao's senior partner, Stalin, prepared to build for the enslavement of the West. Together, Stalin and Mao had traveled more than halfway on the road that leads from Moscow to Paris, via Peking...
...Genghis Khan was favored by Heaven in his generation...
Speeches delivered by Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, during his visit to America last May and June have been collected into a book published today by the University Press...
...barbaric tournament. But when they pillage and burn Chinese cities, the picture has nothing to show for it but some lines of post-mortem dialogue and a pillar of fiery smoke on the far horizon. An oily merchant announces that he is sending a caravan to Kublai Khan with rich gifts, including 81 beautiful women; Director Hathaway shows plenty of caravan, but he never brings on the dancing girls...