Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years after the former Dalai Lama died, Tanchu was chosen to be the ruler of 3,000,000 Tibetans, and brought to Lhasa from his native village (TIME, Feb. 26, 1940). Fifteen doting relatives-parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts-accompanied him and still attend him. Ten teachers, all venerated lamas, instruct him in his public role...
...section of official opinion in the U.S. holds that Japan's Emperor Hirohito should be spared from propaganda and other attack, preserved as the postwar ruler of defeated Japan (see p. 19). Crux of this argument: the Emperor was against war with the U.S., resisted the actions of his war lords...
...heads of the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the U.S. are interested in the possibilities of appeal to the German people against their ruler. In the western declaration, there was no word against them, no appeal or demand for "unconditional surrender"-a phrase for which Winston Churchill was careful to give Franklin Roosevelt full responsibility of authorship...
...Confucius became Chief Minister to Duke Ting of Lu, his theory of government was applied on a large scale-perhaps to discredit it, for "Rotten wood cannot be carved." The young Duke was led away from Confucian precepts by the insidious gift of 80 dancing girls from a neighboring ruler jealous of the prosperity and the magical reformation in manners that came with Confucius' government...
...reaches there is something which even the wisest and holiest of men can not understand. . . . The moral man finds the moral law beginning in the relation between man and woman, but ending in the vast reaches of the universe." The practical wisdom of Confucius' prescription for a good ruler, "Be a good son and brother," was a part of his simple and infinitely varied ordering of society into five human relationships: sovereign and subject, parent and child, husband and wife, older brother and younger brother, friend and friend...