Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your coverage of the so-called "oppressed" German-speaking South Tyrol Italian subjects is paradoxical [March 9]. The record of the Austrian government in dealing with Slovenian and Croat (ethnically Slavic) minorities reveals an amazing degree of similarity to the fate of German-speaking South Tyroleans under Italian rule. Perhaps one method to resolve this so-called "crisis" of German-speaking South Tyroleans under Italian rule is exactly what the Austrian provincial authorities have done with its Slovenian and Croat minorities, i.e., forced (direct and indirect) assimilation or immigration...
...Egyptian Freemasons' lodge and hence, naturally enough, a partner of Zionism. Who was to blame for the unsuccessful Mosul uprising? "The blood of Mosul's free men will haunt you, Gamal," railed the Baghdad announcer. Taunted Radio Cairo: "Iraqis now call their government 'the rule of the Red butcher...
...Sandwich Islands" when he dropped anchor off Kauai in 1778, got a god's welcome from thousands of handsome Polynesians again when he returned the following year, then was killed by natives during a fight over petty thievery. By 1796, the islands were under the firm, beneficent rule of King Kamehameha I. who united the land after ten years of civil war among smaller chieftains, and began turning his domain into a thriving nation. After his death in 1819, his son Liholiho (Kamehameha II) took over, began the systematic abandonment of old taboos and island traditions...
...once-vibrant voice proclaiming, "Without Hitler we are nothing. With Hitler we shall be all!" Husky guards dragged the ex-Gauleiter to his feet to hear two verdicts: for a Polish Jew named Hersz Pianko, whose entire family of 63 persons was wiped out under Koch's rule, the judge ordered payment of one poignantly symbolic zloty (4?); for Koch, the verdict was death...
...Titanic. The number of lifeboats, ample in theory, proved woefully inadequate in practice, because half of them on the high (undamaged) side could not be launched. Undisciplined stewards and kitchen help swarmed into the first boats away and took them to the Stockholm, where they stayed idle. The rule "women and children first" gave way to "the strongest first." The wonder is that not more than 62 lives were lost...