Word: regents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been 15 months since Tshekedi, prosperous cattle rancher and former tribal Regent, was kicked out of the Bamangwato Reserve in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, following into exile his nephew, handsome, Oxford-educated Seretse Khama, chief of the Bamangwatos (TIME, March...
Tito was to invade Hungary, and Grösz would become regent, paving the way for a restoration of Austrian Pretender Otto of Habsburg. Grösz was to prepare for this coup by organizing resistance groups inside Hungary, including the boy scouts. The U.S. would finance the whole affair. Once in power, Grösz would revoke Communist land reforms, return the big landowners and capitalists to power...
King George III was as mad as a hatter, blind, doddering and virtually a prisoner in Windsor Castle. His son George, the Prince Regent, was fat, gross and so unpopular that he hardly dared show his face in public. When he did, he was booed. His adulteries were public knowledge, but his broad-beamed princess, Caroline, was also indiscreet. Soon, and quite openly, she was to take an Italian lover and stand a parliamentary trial for her conduct. London's streets were full of soldiers being demobbed, and the most popular man in England was Alexander I, Czar...
Last week first-nighters crowded little 199-year-old St. Thomas's (Anglican) Church off Regent Street for the London opening of another church play-by Poet-Playwright Christopher (The Lady's Not for Burning...
...Finance Minister Trepon Shakabja, head of the mission, blandly replied: "Well, if that is so, it is a sorry business." Apparently the Communists had stopped to rest or wait for supplies over the rugged caravan tracks and lofty passes from China. Meanwhile, the boy Dalai Lama and his elderly Regent Takta Rimpoche still seemed to be in Lhasa, accord ing to Sinha; they debated flight to India, last-ditch resistance, or submission to the Chinese. From Lhasa's Potala Palace to the U.N.'s Security Council went a mesage asking for help against "unprovoked aggression." There seemed...