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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last time it was Marie-Adélaïde, 20-year-old Grand Duchess. Legend persists that when the Kaiser's Army entered her country she placed 1) her automobile, 2) her person across the road by which it was advancing. Actually she did neither; she made the correct diplomatic protest and prepared to sit the occupation out. For not being more disagreeable about it she eventually lost her crown...
...French were mad at Marie-Adélaïde, claimed that she was pro-German because she had received the Kaiser at tea. Toward the end of the war stories about Luxembourg's high-spirited young ruler began to circulate in the Grand Duchy, and the Luxembourgeois, who were hungry and broke and sick of the Germans, believed many of them. There were riots in Luxembourg City as the Germans retreated across the Moselle and the French started to move in. Pershing beat them to it, and for a while in 1918 Luxembourg was under the protection...
...Marie-Adélaïde refused the hand of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, became an unhappy wanderer. She lived in Switzerland, then Italy, almost penniless. In 1920 she entered a Carmelite convent as a novice, but did not take to a life of contemplation. She joined the Little Sisters of the Poor, gave that up, went to Munich to study medicine. In 1924 she died at Hohenburg, a broken old woman...
Washington newshawks, endlessly questing for a third-term clue, asked Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes what he might be doing next year. He snorted: "I may have to insert a want ad in a newspaper: Position wanted; shopworn, overworked, tired old man who has received more brickbats than any other in public life...
...prices had had little real effect on U. S. trade except to intrigue traders. More than intrigued were U. S. customs officials. Required by law to consider both prices (since both are now quoted by the Federal Reserve), they could not decide which to use in figuring ad valorem duties...