Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious war crimes charge was leveled last week at the Duchy of Burgundy and its ruler, Philip the Good (1419-67). During a visit to the historical library of France's National Assembly, Winston Churchill was shown the original document condemning to death one Joan, sometimes called the Maid, a relapsed heretic. Churchill studied the document and felt called upon to defend England's role in the affair. "It wasn't us who did it," he growled. "It was the Burgundians."* Historian Churchill further remarked to his French guides: "You will probably find somewhere in these books...
...also repeated Britain's frequent promise to get out eventually. The treaty ended half a century of British rule, which began with Queen Victoria's forces moving in to protect British citizens and British investments. In the 18603 and 18703, Egyptian Khedive Ismail, a gusty, grandiose ruler who had a harem of 3,000 women, had dreamed vast dreams which he executed with the help of usurious European bankers. They supplied the cash at interest rates ranging up to 40%. He built 9,000 miles of canals, 4,500 schools, and completed the Suez Canal; he also indulged...
...world's loneliest places is the Cocos Islands, a group of 27 coral islets whose tall coconut palms are fanned by the soft trade winds of the Indian Ocean midway between Ceylon and Australia. Until last week, one of the loneliest men there was its benevolent ruler: king John Clunies-Ross, a slim young (22) Briton who rules the 1,200 copra-gathering islanders under a 999-year charter granted by Queen Victoria to his great-greatgrandfather, Ross I, a Scot from the Shetland Isles, who settled there...
...newspaper last week. It needs a special approach. Before even meeting his prelate, said Engelman, the painter should study him carefully-family background, personality, ecclesiastical career. Only then should he try to picture a man who is at once "a high-placed person, a compassionately spiritual father, a sturdy ruler, an immovably insular person, a religious power, a lonely...
Died. King Abdullah Ibn-Hussein, 69, Arab ruler of the Kingdom of Jordan; by an assassin's bullet; in Old Jerusalem (see FOREIGN NEWS...