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...gave him his latest excuse to string out the elections. They look with suspicion on the central Government and army (present strength, about 100,000), which has been trying to disarm them as a prelude to election. Oxford-educated Mohamad Houssein Qashqai, one of the four Qashqai brothers who rule most of the southern tribesmen, thinks the army exists only to suppress tribesmen, fears ambitious officers may attempt a coup d'état. He said recently: "Since the days of Reza Shah,* every private thinks he can become a dictator." But the tribesmen concluded an uneasy truce with...
FOSTER SAYS TRUMAN SEEKS TO RULE WORLD...
...built no hospitals, made no philanthropic gestures. He hated Italians and did his best to make life miserable for them, even though they comprised 65% of Hoboken voters. Under his rule Hoboken taxes went skyhigh. Population fell off by a fifth; building almost ceased...
There is nothing hopelessly mysterious about the Confucian principles Chen Li-fu wants to refurbish. Essentially, Confucianism teaches that human nature is good,* that harmony among men is the goal of life, that rulers rule by example and exhortations to virtue. However, the Confucian system assumes that government shall rest in the hands of scholars and of gentle and honorable men-the chiin-tzu. The benevolent paternalism of the chiin-tzu ideal (still reflected in China's 36-year Kuomintang "tutelage" and in much of the new Constitution) is not popular government as the West understands it. To many...
After his death, the mountaineers of De Flue's native Sachseln began saying prayers to him. According to canon law, this would have permanently disqualified him for sainthood: there is a rule that no public prayers may be said to the departed until Rome has approved the beatification. But in 1669 Pope Clement IX delighted even Switzerland's Protestants by cutting ecclesiastical red tape and authorizing Nicolas de Flue's beatification...