Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these two warring States, Herr Hitler and Prince Franz Josef of Liechtenstein, sat down at a Berlin parley. Their subject of discussion: colonies. Prince Franz Josef's colony is a private estate in the Sudetenland, an estate considerably larger than his 5x12 country. Surprisingly for an enemy ruler who wants a colony or two for himself, Herr Hitler made no immediate demands on the integrity of the Prince's colonial empire...
Also, this fast was different. No longer the kingpin of the Indian National Congress, the Mahatma was out to gain new prestige or martyrdom, or even to test his own power. As an issue he picked on the Thakore Saheb (petty chief) Shri Dharmendrasinhji, ruler of Rajkot, who, like almost any other Indian prince, bears down with a heavily jeweled hand on the 75,540 people in his piddling little State of 282 square miles. It was there that Saint Gandhi got his political start...
Meanwhile, the Thakore Saheb stalled for time. The 29-year-old ruler certainly did not want to be responsible for the Mahatma's death. In no less a pickle was the British Government. Congress Governments made what political capital they could by wiring New Delhi that if Gandhi died, Britain would have to answer for the consequences. Britain did not want to have a dead Gandhi on its hands, but, if Britain gave in on this point and forced the Thakore Saheb to reform his government, a bad precedent would be set. Then Congress leaders could attack other Indian...
...house. The Hearst who mortgaged San Simeon to get $600,000 for spending money has for the past two years been employed as editorial director of his own newspapers, and last year his salary from the Hearst Consolidated papers was cut from $500,000 to $100,000. No longer ruler of the empire he built, Hearst has only two desires concerning it: 1) to have some of it survive him; 2) to keep his job. Nearing 76, the man who was the most spectacular publisher and spendthrift of his time wants to die a newspaperman...
...accuse the leaders of Nazi Germany, as a ruler was accused in 1776, of a design to reduce the world under absolute despotism...