Word: sultan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange, superstition-ridden Moros are hard to control, harder to understand. The story goes that General John J. Pershing, when he commanded in Sulu, developed a workable formula. Once when the Moros went wild, Pershing asked their Sultan to stop them. The Sultan said it was impossible. Pershing had warships shell the coastal villages. When the Sultan demanded that the shelling be stopped, he was told that the Navy had gone juramentado too. After that, Pershing and the Moros got along much better...
...artists Repin and Surikov fixed in oil a sense of Russian gusto: Repin's Reply of the Cossacks to the Sultan curses in color. General Suvarov, who slaughtered the Turks at Ismail and the Poles at Warsaw, showed that in war a Russian can be ruthless. General Kutuzov, who lured Napoleon to his fate, showed that he can be shrewd...
...year ago prosecutions for looting averaged twelve daily. Labor's Clement Richard Attlee told the Trades Union Congress that "Hitler has already suffered grievous defeats." The Sultan of Johore's girl friend, Lydia Cecily Hill, was killed by a bomb...
...John Simon icily ignored it.) He proclaimed again & again that the U.S. would recognize no territorial gains based on conquest. At every turn in his career for 30 years Henry Stimson's attention was focused on the international scene. He not only got around, meeting Mussolini, Laval, the Sultan of Sulu and many another world character, he also consistently stuck to the view that the U.S. could not merely look inwardly to its own security, that it could not long remain safe in a world where aggressors were allowed to roam free...
...Delft, Leiden (and for a few months later on attended California's Stanford University). He is still proud of his American slang and of being a cover-to-cover reader of TIME. Back in the Indies, he became a civil servant, served a hitch as adviser to the Sultan of Jokyakarta. By 1931, when he decided to take a flyer in politics, he had become-for a Dutch colonial-a man of very liberal ideas. He edited what was known in the Indies as a "radical" weekly...