Word: sultan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roses. Last week, in the red-and-gold pendopo (pavilion) of the Sultan of Jogjakarta, Soekarno formally took his oath of office on the Koran (which according to Moslem custom was held against the back of his head). "Brothers, brothers," he cried in his inaugural address, "I pray for strength. Our task now is to fill that vacuum called freedom . . . Now we must heal the wounds and wipe off the blood...
...boss, the Sultan of Morocco, was unable to catch Raisuli, settled the affair by paying a $70,000 ransom to the bandit to release Perdicaris...
Back in Batavia, however, another influential Indonesian leader, Sultan Hamid II of Pontianak in Borneo, was not so sure of his countrymen's ability to check the Communist tide in Asia. "Communism," he said, "is the greatest danger for us here." The Sultan urged U.S. aid to help the U.S.I, to its feet; he indicated that for such aid America might well be permitted to have troops and bases in Indonesia...
Married. Sidi Muley Hassan ben el Mehedi, 42, Caliph of Spanish Morocco; and Princess Lal-La Fatima Zohora Bent Muley, 22, British-educated, tradition-flouting (she never covers her face, Moorish fashion) daughter of the late Sultan of Morocco; each for the first time (his concubines do not count); in a three-week-long, $600,000 ceremony financed by the Spanish government (Franco gave the newlyweds a $200,000 home); in Tetuan, Spanish Morocco...
...Sultan's Choice is a reminder of the fact that TIME is the favorite-'and first-choice-magazine of a lot of people. The Sultan may also serve to remind the thousands of veteran travelers among you that wherever you go this summer you will find the current issue of TIME on most of the world's newsstands...