prewar period
101Хайле Селассие I, император Эфиопии — Хайле Селассие I ኃይለ፡ ሥላሴ Хайле Селассие I в 1930 х гг …
102Хайле Селассие — I ኃይለ፡ ሥላሴ Хайле Селассие I в 1930 х гг …
103Хейл Селасси — Хайле Селассие I ኃይለ፡ ሥላሴ Хайле Селассие I в 1930 х гг …
104Franchet d'Esperey, Louis-Félix-François — ▪ French marshal born May 25, 1856, Mostaganem, Alg. died July 8, 1942, Albi, Fr. marshal of France and one of the most effective French military leaders of World War I. He was responsible for driving Bulgaria out of the war, thereby… …
105Sherman tank — officially M4 General Sherman main battle tank designed and built by the United States for the conduct of World War II. The M4 was the most widely used tank series in the war, being employed not only by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps but also… …
1061931 Constitution of Ethiopia — The 1931 Constitution of Ethiopia was the first document intended as a modern constitution for that country. It was promulgated in an impressive ceremony held 16 July 1931 in the presence of Emperor Haile Selassie, who had long desired to… …
107Kannagara no michi — The way (michi) according to the kami (kannagara) is an alternative rendering of Shinto used in the prewar period with the meaning of orthodoxy. Like kodo it is sometimes used to make a distinction between Shinto as variegated popular beliefs …
108yachting — Yachting used to be known as ‘the sport of kings’ (possibly from Charles II’s having been presented with a ‘jacht’ by the Dutch East India Company in 1660). Prince Philip continued the royal tradition into the 1960s by sailing a Dragon class… …
109FORCED (Slave) LABOR — The term forced labor (Zwangsarbeit) is not well defined. Forced labor is commonly understood as an employment relationship of a member of a persecuted political or a specific ideological (weltanschauliche) grouping, or an ethnic group, or a… …
110international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
