Word: rulership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Publisher Cromie gloried in a great coup. On May 11 he had mailed out copies of an editorial entitled "World Rulership Swings West," in which he said: "When President Roosevelt issued invitations to his White House Party two weeks ago, there was no question then as to who was running the world; and there was no question as to where world headquarters is, and probably will be for some time. ... If the world rejects Roosevelt leadership it will stay exactly where it is today, and humanity will continue to suffer and retrogress. If the world accepts...
Only five days later President Roosevelt addressed his Disarmament Message to the rulers of 54 nations (TIME, May 22). Here indeed, felt Publisher Cromie, was World Rulership swinging West. Exulted he: "The President's world message proves it! . . . One hour after the message went out to the Powers, the world was scrambled into a unit that shall never again unscramble. One hour after that message left the White House, man looks out on a new kind of world, one that will have to be handled as a unit and for some considerable time, from Washington . . . because Europe...
...left that hopeless & thankless task to the "Young Marshal" who miserably failed to hold Jehol (TIME, March 13 et ante). Last week the New Deal was dealt ceremoniously on the General Staff Train which halted 90 miles short of Peiping at Paotingfu Station. Crestfallen "Young Marshal" Chang resigned his rulership of North China. His resignation was face-savingly "refused" by the Generalissimo until two days later. Meanwhile Young Chang was permitted to proclaim that his sole purpose was to die for China, battling the Japanese in person at the head of a Chinese division. With that proclamation properly published, Young...
...looks forward to the first lesson with extracurricular zeal. Queen Balkis, for her part, is drumming the floor of her rocking camel-litter with her heels, impatient to arrive. The purpose of her pilgrimage is both political and personal. In the land of Sheba, dynastic laws require that rulership repose exclusively in the hands of virgins. Hitherto the ruling virgins had propagated their royal race by divine miracle-a newborn babe would be discovered in the temple by the priests, and at the same time the virgin breasts of the queen would miraculously begin to give milk. But no such...