Word: sultanate
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...presented with an ultimatum," wrote the Sultan of Kedah-one of five who had risen to power since the Jap invasion-"and in the event of my refusal to sign what I call the Instrument of Surrender, a successor who would sign would be appointed...
...string of titles - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of Turkey, Caliph of Islam, Prince of the Faithful, Master of the World and Custodian of the Cities of Mecca and Medina - but he was better known during his reign (1876-1909) as Abdul the Damned. He squatted within a triple-walled palace at Constantinople, amassed women (four wives, 233 concubines) and wealth ($112,000,000 in jewels, millions more in oilfields and other jiftlik, or crown lands). In 1920, after he and his sick empire had died, his numerous heirs began one of the most fantastic inheritance suits of all time...
...Japs retreated over the Johore causeway over which they had entered the supposedly impregnable fortress city. Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki told the Sultan of Johore: "We hope the peace will last 20 years. Then we will be back again...
...news of the Sultan, see PEOPLE...
...Sultan of Johore, bearing a personal grudge against the Jap invaders of his Malayan state-they had not only maltreated his subjects but had swiped five of his automobiles and one of his polo-field rollers-recalled one thoroughly satisfactory incident: Field Marshal Terauchi had made him a present of a loaf of bread, but the Sultan simply smelled it-in the Marshal's presence-and told a manservant to throw it away...