Word: proconsulate
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...Proconsul Verres, a grasping fellow who rose to the governorship of Sicily, "possessed probably the finest eye for works of art of anyone in the ancient world...
...replaced them all. The power of the aristocrats, the industrialists, the royal playboys and the royal concubines has passed into her hands. She runs Rumania. Her title is Foreign Minister, but her job is that of Stalin's proconsul. Of the seven telephones on her office desk one is said to be a direct line to the Kremlin. Asked if she had permission to call Stalin at any hour, Ana answered: "When the occasion arises, I can reach...
...Chinese tragedy that distant Sinkiang had been misruled, from 1928 until 1944, by notorious Warlord Sheng Shih-tsai. Nominally as the proconsul of the Chinese Central Government, General Sheng administered a private terror that brought death to at least 50,000 people in 16 years...
Hillbilly Government. But surprises are unlikely. The Proconsul has summarily silenced dissenters. Sporadic stabs of opposition still come from Yugoslavia's new Partisans (mostly followers of exiled Croatian Peasant Leader Vladimir Macek), who have taken to the hills. But the mass of anti-Communist Yugoslavs are leaderless. The middle class is being systematically liquidated, since ration cards are issued only to workers (says the model Constitution: "He who does not contribute to the community may not receive from it"). Almost all businesses are confiscated by the simple device of convicting the owners of collaboration with the Germans. The Catholic...
...Proconsul has done well for himself and for his masters. But his task is not finished. The task reaches far beyond the borders of Yugoslavia. Its scope is determined, in all its crushing simplicity, by geography and by the inexorable pulse of power which conditions the lives of nations...