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From the League of Nations anti-slavery office it was announced during the week that H. H. Beglar Begi Mir bir Mahmud Khan, Wali of Kalat, cooperating with the Government of India, has abolished slavery in the Kalat district of Baluchistan, remote Indian province. Formerly male and female slaves have been so absolutely the property of their owners in Kalat that two mated slaves were sometimes refused even sustenance by their master, forced to shift for themselves, and then any children which they might manage to bring up were finally seized by the original master as they reached...
Recovery. Wilhelm, seeming to have sensed this trend at its inception, has consistently ignored such "Hang the Kaiser!" propaganda as has filtered to Doom, whence he removed from Amerogen (June 1920). He has said dozens of times to visitors, however: "Max von Baden ist hinter mir gegangen!" ("Max of Baden has tricked me behind my back!") Apparently he still dreams that Germany would not have turned from him, had not Prince Max announced* his abdication...
...Full title: His Exalted Highness Asaf Jah, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk-Wal-Mumilak, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Nizam ud Daula Nawab Mir Sir Vsman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India, Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, Honorable Lieutenant General in the Army, Faithful Ally of the British Government...
...swear to devote all my energies to the welfare of the German people; to increase their prosperity, to protect them from injury, to preserve the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth, to perform my duties conscientiously and to deal justly with all." To this he added So wahr mir Gott helfe (So help me God), thus setting a precedent for other (if any) Presidents...
...life, he became a revolutionary; and History records his movements from Odessa to Siberia (escaped), to Geneva, back to Russia, to Siberia (escaped), to Austria. On the outbreak of the War, he went to Paris, was deported to Spain, arrested, left for the U. S., edited the Nory Mir in Manhattan, left early in 1917 for Russia, where he became Lenin's right-hand man and took prominent part in the Oktober (Bolshevik) revolution...