Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maharaja made Abdullah his prime minister, promised to be a constitutional ruler in future; then the Maharaja lit out for the relative safety of his other princely state, Jammu. In New Delhi this week Prime Minister Nehru called for a U.N. plebiscite, shouted: "Is the Pakistan Government too weak to prevent armies from marching across its territory to invade another country...
Reality for Projection. A third of the 60 paintings in last week's show were abstractions which reflected his growing interest in geometry (he used a ruler and divider in planning them). "Abstractions for abstraction's sake," he still insisted, "are a sterile business. When the artist permits the mood of the spectator to take full control he abdicates his function. But my abstractions are projections of reality." Among the more obvious "projections": a Mutilated House which looked like a cement block oozing blood, and The Face of Treason, a successfully nauseating tapioca of eyes in space...
...threat to peace arose in the heart of Western India. His Highness the Nawab Saheb of Junagadh, a Moslem ruling a predominantly Hindu state, decided to join Pakistan. One of his sub-chiefs, the ruler of Babariawad, applied for admission to India. The Nawab rushed troops to Babariawad. Some 60,000 of his subjects fled to India...
Died. Princess Elsa of Liechtenstein, 72, widow of the late Franz I, onetime ruler of the postage-stamp principality nestled between Austria and Switzerland; of a heart attack; at Lake Vitznau, Switzerland. Granddaughter of a wealthy Viennese banker, Elsa de Guttmann secretly married Franz in 1921 (she was Jewish; he a Roman Catholic). When the 76-year-old Prince succeeded to the throne in 1929, the couple went through a public ceremony. After the Austrian Anschluss, Franz began to feel Nazi pressure because of his non-Aryan wife, quietly abdicated because he was getting...
FREDERICK THE GREAT: THE RULER, THE WRITER, THE MAN (376 pp.) - G. P. Gooch-Knopf...