Word: regente
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...next day, which might have brought revolution, did not. By that time Regent Abdul Illah had summoned up his nerve and named a new Premier: Iraq's aggressive, muscular Lieut. General Nurid-din Mahmoud, 53, the army chief of staff. In a few hours armored cars and cavalry began pouring into the city; the Communists slithered away, and Baghdad quieted...
...explosion of that resentment. Rioting Iraqi shouted "Down with Foreign Imperialism!" and "Down with Forged Elections!", stoned the windows of the British Embassy and swarmed into the offices of the U.S. Information Service, setting it afire. Some 60 civilians and policemen were wounded and eleven or more killed. Regent Abdul Illah hastily appointed his army chief of staff, General Nur El Din Mahmoud, as Premier. General Mahmoud declared martial law in Baghdad Province, and a measure of order was restored by tear gas and armored-car patrols...
With the help of Plato, 21-year-old Yuvraj (Crown Prince) Karan Singh, Prince Regent of embattled Kashmir, last week was trying to choose between duty and a maharaja's fortune (once estimated at $75 million). Karan, a Hindu, has been nominal ruler, since 1949, of predominantly Moslem Kashmir in place of his exiled father. Kashmir's real ruler, the man who banished Karan's father, is Prime Minister Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, a Moslem. As he had long threatened to do, Abdullah persuaded the Kashmir constituent assembly to abolish the 106-year-old dynasty of the ruling...
Though his stunts have included breakneck rides in fire engines, racing cars and tanks, Johnston's narrowest escape came last spring when he placed a small advertisement in the London Evening News inviting "young ladies seeking adventure'' to meet him in lower Regent Street. At the appointed hour, Johnston was swamped by 1,000 adventure-minded females, who blocked traffic in Piccadilly Circus. He finally had to be rescued by police...
...perhaps question the justification of a mass turnout of three or four thousand students (as was had on occasions), marching down Oxford and Regent Streets, across Piccadilly Circus and on through the center of London. This accompanied by "removing" of policeman's helmets, dousing them with water and other highly irregular actions--even pulling loose the trolley pole of trackless trolleys; an action which a student here now regrets...