Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Historically, Catherine II (1729-96) was an ambitious, shrewd, capable ruler, fonder of sleeping with politically potent gentlemen than of romping with her guardsmen. Because, as in the case of mannish Christina of Sweden, such cold facts would make indifferent cinema, Catherine becomes gentle, amiable, lovable for her good heart and good sense. Arriving in Russia a bewildered, unsophisticated German child-princess, she learns she is not wanted by the heir apparent, Grand Duke Peter (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). But she changes his mind when she inadvertently meets him. Married, she wins the trust of Russia's clever, lustful Empress...
...against the coronation of Japan's Manchu puppet as Emperor of Manchukuo was its onetime ruler the Chinese "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang...
...from what is now Manchukuo (TIME, March 20) Young Chang last week cried, "I cannot praise too highly Mussolini and Hitler. What men! I am only a small man now. The Chinese people will not like this cor onation. They have never liked the idea of a crowned ruler since the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. Had my own father. Marshal Chang Tso-lin, been crowned I should have wanted to kill...
Down through the snow-swept passes of Tibet last week drifted reports that yellow-hatted-monks had picked the 14th Dalai Lama, reincarnation of Buddha and successor to the late Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho, temporal ruler of 3,000,000 Tibetans (TIME, Jan. 1). After weighty examination of sacred books and relics, astrological signs and portents, the monks had come upon a babe in the outskirts of Lhasa, who had been born the night the old Dalai Lama died. The infant into whose body the spirit of the Dalai Lama had supposedly passed was to be left with...
Meanwhile in China the Panchen Lama, spiritual ruler of Tibet who was ousted in 1924, planned to go to Nanking this week for the meeting of the Kuomintang party and discuss possibilities of getting back his old post...