Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...isolated acts and the feelings of a few individuals cannot swerve the policies of a whole nation. What can you expect of people in whom from the cradle have been instilled the notions that vengeance is a sacred duty and that their race has a divine mission, i.e., to rule the world...
...shall stay until our mission is accomplished." The military figure of speech was apt. In Korea the U.S. faced the Soviets across a steel line bisecting the country-the 38th parallel. This was the outgrowth of Yalta. To the north were 10,000,000 Koreans under Soviet rule, with nearly all the nation's industrial resources but little agriculture. To the south were 20,000,000 Koreans under U.S. rule, with nearly all the nation's agricultural resources but little industry, fuel or power...
...until the British last week proclaimed "Governor's Rule," and flew in substantial troop reinforcements, did the carnage begin to abate in the Punjab. By then, uncountable hundreds were dead, hundreds more were injured, and thousands of buildings had been smashed or burned. The riots came in a moment of governmental vacuum, after the resignation of Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana's coalition government. The issue was purely and simply Pakistan. The Moslems shouted "Pakistan Zindabad!" (Up with Pakistan!). The Hindus and Sikhs answered back: "Pakistan Murdabad!" (Death to Pakistan!). Then the knives began to flash...
...made to follow a course of action, but they must not be expected to understand." From this, Chiang derives a guiding maxim: "To know is difficult, to act is easy." As developed in the supporting text, this maxim envisions a knowledgeable elite (the Kuomintang) which will "know" and rule the unenlightened mass of the people, according to the ancient precepts of "harmony," "benevolence," "justice," and "love...
...permitted the seven weeks' hurdle to carry over into a term in which it has manifestly become a nuisance. What is inertia now may become habit by fall--examinations are an historic vice of administration offices. At its next meeting, the Faculty should vote to abolish the seven weeks' rule...