Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wedding would unite two famed families of Pretenders. The bride-young and charming-was the daughter of the Infante Don Carlos (brother-in-law of the late King Alfonso), and first Spanish princess to be married in her native land since Spain went republican. The tall, mustachioed groom was the great-grandson of Dom Pedro II, second (and last) of Brazil's brief line of Portuguese emperors. When the second Dom Pedro abdicated the Brazilian throne in favor of a republic, his family lived in France until Brazil relented in 1920, welcomed home the house of Bragan...
Seville Cathedral, second largest in the world,* was ready. So was Cardinal Segura, who would tie the knot. But the climax would not come until Dom Duarte, Duke of Bragança, brother-in-law of the bridegroom, could arrive from Switzerland. Wartime traveling is so uncertain...
...front of the Town Hall other little girls were chattering. There was Christl. But she wasn't Christl anymore-now she was Claudette. There was Bernadette, whose brother had run off to the Maquis. And there was Maria Pia, who could scarcely speak French at all because, when the Germans came, she had been only four...
...strength. Chiang gave his armies a new, energetic Minister of War-young, able General Chen Cheng (TIME, Nov. 27). Just as important, Chiang had reorganized his civil administration. To China's No. 2 job, Acting President of the Executive Yuan, he appointed China's ablest administrator, his brother-in-law, Foreign Minister Tse-veng ("T.V.") Soong. The crisis - military, economic and political - was now at hand. On its outcome rested not only the future of Chiang Kai-shek's Government, but the future of China's 400,000,000 people. The crisis had brought...
...Chiu Islands and Formosa from China. His father, of Hainanese trader stock, was Charlie Jones Soong, who as a boy (9) came to the U.S., be came a Christian and returned to China to father one of the world's most distinguished broods of children. T.V. is the brother of the famed Soong sisters, China's three first ladies— Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen), Ailing (Madame H. H. Kung), Mei-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek). Of Soong's three sons, only T. V. has rivaled his sisters in place and prestige...