Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nanking, capital of Puppet Wang Ching-wei's National Government, Lieut. General Nobuyuki Abe, who is occupied China's real ruler, at long last went through the formality of recognizing Wang's regime. The day before, a bomb had gone off under a train in Soochow station, but the Chinese who planted the bomb got the wrong train and killed 100 of their countrymen. A few hours later General Abe's train went through safely to Nanking, where student agitators demonstrated against the Japanese and 3,000 policemen chose that time to strike for more wages...
...sunset. Like animals, they "observed without surprise or emotion the eternal cycle of budding, maturing, and deteriorating; year in, year out, their eyes and senses noted the uniformity of change." These peasants "always knew the names of the bishop and the ruling Pope, but rarely that of the temporal ruler." With deep misgivings they watched the war against Napoleon III, Bismarck's new Empire, the ascendancy of Protestant Prussia over Catholic Bavaria, the visiting officers and nobles who profaned rustic Masses by singing Deutschland über alles before the Te Deum...
...preservation of the earth's last fortress of democracy. . . . Power is a heady wine. Few human brains can resist it, and certainly there has been no evidence, or even desire of resistance in the gentleman who seeks it now. He has gathered unto himself more power than any ruler on earth has, save in the totalitarian governments...
This was, strictly, no legitimate objective. The Bahrein oil concessions are owned jointly by Texas Corp. and Standard Oil of California. Bahrein's ruler is an independent sheik, its western inhabitants mostly Americans. But Italy quickly pointed out that California Texas Oil Co. is a British corporation, that Bahrein is governed as a British protectorate...
...Poet Thomasset had a vision and from it emerged a book: The Miraculous Victory of Emperor Ulrich. An immaculate ruler and spiritual descendant of Parsifal, Emperor Ulrich liberated France by crushing her in a war. He made Brittany the centre of a Celtic group of provinces, including her "racial sister," Ireland. Alsace-Lorraine, Champagne and Burgundy he placed "directly under the protection of the Holy (German) Empire." Italy was assigned to "protect and guide" the provinces of southeast France. The Basques and Catalans on both sides of the Pyrenees were united and made independent. A "Great United Kingdom...