Word: raja
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over India, intellectual leaders were criticizing Nehru for hurling thunderous denunciations at Britain and France for their invasion of Egypt while expressing only mild concern over Soviet Russia's ruthless repression in Hungary. In a letter to the Times of India, Nehru's brother-in-law, Raja Hutheesing, put to the Prime Minister an unanswerable question: "Under what international law has the massacre of thousands of Hungarian people been termed by the Government of India ... a civil strife...
...King of the Khyber Rifles (TIME, Jan. 11), the hero (Rock Hudson) is a British officer, who in this case has a Midwestern twang to his speech. He affects to defect to the enemy, but only in order to diddle some secrets out of a raja (Arnold Moss) with a slight New York accent. Add to the linguistic confusion a Hindu girl (Ursula Thiess) who has a German accent, and even the children for whom the movie is intended may suspect that the action is not quite faithful to history...
...Bhutan, like Tibet, was ruled jointly by a high lama, the Dharma Raja, who was believed to be the reincarnation of Buddha himself, and a temporal leader, the Deb Raja. Finding a new reincarnation of Buddha when the old one died was always a trouble. It involved waiting several years and then finding a baby who would proclaim his identity by recognizing certain suitable symbols. By 1907 Bhutan's lamas, grown fat and indolent with centuries of rule, got too lazy to hunt for a new Raja. The government was taken over by a local governor, the Tongsa Penlop...
...annual Constitutional Day celebrations came Malaya's youngest potentate, who rules Malaya's smallest state, Perils (pop. 71,000), just over the Siamese border. The Raja of Perlis, a plump 31, met Riam, 27, fell deeply in love. Last May, Riam accepted the Raja's 15-carat diamond engagement ring and last month they were married...
...fact that the Raja already has a wife & nine children at home in Perlis made no difference. Explained Riam: "We are Moslems, and the Raja is allowed by our religion to take four wives." Nor did it make any difference that the Raja's first wife, the progressively minded Tengku Budriah, should be a Girl Scout commissioner, a badminton, hockey and tennis player, who believes in the emancipation of Moslem women. Moslem custom demanded that she keep a dutiful silence while, 400 yards from her palace, workmen put the finishing touches on a cozy little green house...