Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sickening after each war to reconstruct the same old European crazy quilt. Of course this European unity must be entirely voluntary. Although its present divisions are killing it, Europe, the birthplace of Western civilization, does not wish to be-and must not be-"united" under any foreign ruler...
...smoking, drinking and going with girls disqualify him. They doubt also that he would have the flexibility of recent Christs. Anton Lang, who played the Christus in 1900, 1910 and 1922, was a sad, merciful Saviour. Alois Lang played the role as King of the Jews-a firm, determined ruler. "The Bible says Christ is both," one villager explained, "and so Christ has to make up his mind which he wants to be. The problem is that not one of our young men has made up his mind that he wants to be Christ...
Ivan is the story of a ruler whose passion was to extend and unify a Russia dismembered among foreign enemies and predatory boyars; of the constant writhe of intrigue against him; of how he dealt with his enemies both foreign and domestic ; and of how the man and his policies changed in the process. Major scenes are Ivan's coronation; his destruction of the Tartar city of Kazan; his rising from his supposed deathbed to abash those who are plotting against his son's succession. Half mad with grief and self-doubt after his wife's murder...
...Gaekwar of Baroda, gem-collecting Indian ruler of some 3,000,000 souls, arrived in Manhattan with wife & child for an American outing, promptly inquired about the availability of bodyguards (he was familiar with the Lindbergh case, he explained), made it safely to the Waldorf-Astoria under cover of four detectives...
...forty U. S. equipped divisions, if, by giving this materiel, America were helping a democratic government subdue a rebellious minority harmful to an enlightened program. But in spite of the tactful whitewash masking the Kuomintang government, the reports trickling out of China point to Chiang, not as a liberal ruler, but as a feudal baron eager for an absolute dictatorship. Returning G.I.'s, foreign correspondents, and Madame Sun Yat Sen question the pledges of Chiang, with tales of concentration camps, gruesome political murders, and widespread governmental corruption. The reports state that instead of the supposed progress in Nationalist controlled areas...