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Charles V: New World
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Charles had abundance of good sense, but little creative genius, and he was by nature conservative. Consequently he never sought to impose any new or common principles of administration on his several states. He took them as he found them, and at most, as in the Netherlands, improved upon what he found. So ... in dealing with rival powers his policy may be called opportunist. He was indeed accused by his enemies of emulating Charlemagne, of aiming at universal empire. Historians have frequently repeated this charge.
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Charles's abdication has been variously interpreted. While many saw in it an unsuccessful man's escape from the world, his contemporaries thought differently. Charles himself had been considering the idea even in his prime. In 1532 his secretary, Alfonso de Valdés, suggested to him the thought that a ruler who was incapable of preserving the peace and, indeed, who had to consider himself an obstacle to its establishment was obliged to retire from affairs of state. Once the abdication had become a fact, St. Ignatius of Loyola had this to say:
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Senator Charles E. Schumer is holding a news conference in Brooklyn right at which he was expected to vow to fight the planned sale of Starrett City, the huge Brooklyn apartment complex. Mr. Schumer wrote some of the legislation that granted federal housing subsidies to the complex, and he says the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which must approve a new owner, is skeptical of the plan to sell it to a partnership led by David Bistricer.
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