Word: mu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Months ago General Huang Mu-sung of the Nationalist Government led a Chinese mission deep into Tibet to see what effect all this kindness, all this money had had. The time seemed most propitious. The British-controlled Dalai Lama had died in December 1933, and according to immemorial tradition his spirit was announced to have found residence in the body of a small button-eyed Tibetan moppet, chosen by wheel-spinning Buddhist priests. Until he reaches his majority the new Dalai Lama will be shut up in a monastery and the country will be governed by a Regency. Nobody knew...
Breathlessly Nanking waited word from General Huang Mu-sung. No direct word came from him for weeks, but last week Huang Mu-sung was back in Nanking, his yellow face wreathed in smiles. Tibet, he roundly swore, was ready to forget 21 years of estrangement from China, would now cooperate fully with the Nationalist Government...
Cried the people: "Zivio! Long Life! Slavu Mu! Glory...
...regent, pale scholarly Prince Paul Kara-Georgevitch is not an over-impressive figure to hold in line this racial conglomeration that is Jugoslavia. At the National Assembly he took the oath of office last week, listened to a great funeral oration from Premier Uzunovitch while Deputies roared out "Slavu Mu! Glory to Him!" at every mention of the dead King. Eyes kept turning from the pale Prince Regent to another figure behind him. grizzled, bristling General Pera Zivkovitch, by tradition the man who let the murderers of Alexander Obrenovitch into the royal palace, virtual dictator for three years under Alexander...
...Luther and Hitler, preached a sermon on sin and forgiveness. Six hundred loyal pastors and state bishops attended, some of them giving Nazi salutes. Notably absent were representatives of foreign churches and the Bishops of Bavaria and Württemberg-last two of the 28 state synods which Reichsbischof Muüller attempted forcibly to incorporate in his Reich church. When the consecration was over the Reichsbischof went outside to reiterate, over the loudspeakers set up for the crowds that were not present, that Germany now has a United Evangelical Church...