Word: zimri
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Grand Elector Max has succeeded in creating Danubia out of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia. Upon an economic stage set with starvation wages and rock-bottom farm prices steps a new Messiah. He is Johann Zimri, son of a Hungarian plumber who combines a knowledge of psychotherapy and osteopathy with the perfect bedside manner. Scores take to his simple belief that a little of God is in every man. With this magic, Zimri wins over an important industrialist, the Danubia youth movement, a onetime mistress of the Grand Elector, a leading journalist. In spite of this backing, the Messiah...
When Magda, the ex-mistress, shoots Elector Max, Zimri's Brotherhood of Man seems about to triumph, for the Minister of Agriculture becomes dictator and summons the Zimri group to power. But after the followers of the late Messiah get one good look at the clever plan of attacking Italy, they turn sternly from peace to war. A satire on the nature of power, Destiny's Man can be recommended to all surviving anarchists...
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