Word: sultanate
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...tenth birthday of the Turkish Republic had dawned and Turks had much to rejoice over. Amid world depression they are prospering. Their budget balances. Private deposits in Turkish banks have octupled since the Young Turks ousted the last Sultan, flabby, sponge-brained Mohammed VI. This year Turkey is on the second lap of a Three-Year Plan of economic development supervised by U. S. experts. To her tenth birthday party last week came the second most notable man in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, dashing Red War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov who is definitely more popular though less potent...
...Years ago General Mustafa the Excellent and his Young Turks had al ready beaten the Allies at the Dardanelles, ousted the Sultan and beaten the Greeks (whom David Lloyd George set against them) before they proceeded to found the Turkish Republic...
...without the assistance of powerful allies. The Habsburg Emperors gained at various times control of over half Europe by the practical but not very inspiring habit of marrying heiresses, but there was one time when Austria was truly great, when Vienna saved Europe. In 1683 the Turks under Sultan Mohammed IV made a last attempt to conquer Western Europe. An army of 400,000 men swept into Hungary and across the Danube to camp under the gates of Vienna. They never got inside. Vienna's defenses were in the hands of a peruked gallant, Count Rüdiger...
Within the same period [six months from the coming into force of the Treaty] Germany will hand over to his Britannic Majesty's Government the skull oj the Sultan Mkwawa, which was removed from the Protectorate of German East Africa and taken to Germany...
Inside this famed skull had been the shrewd brain of the black Sultan Mkwawa of Tanganyika. Some say he died by his own hand, others that he was beheaded when his rebellion in the 90's against the Imperial Germanization of East Africa failed and he was about to be captured. Inside the living skulls of the Negroes ot East Africa grew a superstition that they were doomed to endless calamity until Mkwawa's skull was returned to them The Britons who tried to rule them bribed the tribal chiefs into loyalty. But without the skull, the chiefs...