Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always wanted Canada in. The Dominion, with its tie to the Crown in London, was once regarded as an outpost of the Old World. But now, Canada would be welcomed as another Anglo-Saxon voice at a predominantly Latin table. The constitution of the Pan American Union can easily be changed at the Bogota conference this year to admit the Dominion...
...Patriarch chanted, "Christ is risen, Christ is risen," while the choir and the 7,000 took up the refrain. Light from the Patriarch's candle, touched quickly to a dozen others, spread through the nave. Gorgeous in his robes of silvered silk and wearing a pearl-and-diamond crown, the Patriarch swung his fragrant censer, blessed them...
...Patriarch mounted the rostrum in the middle of the nave. Acolytes ceremonially stripped him of his outer robes and crown. Then over the Patriarch's shoulders they draped three layers of bright, resurrection-season vestments-scarlet and gold in place of silver, a crown of gold and rubies for the pearl-and-diamond one. As each vestment was presented to him on a velvet-covered silver salver, the Patriarch reverently kissed it. For the last time the acolytes came forward with the salver. Typically Russian pomp turned to typically Russian casualness. The Patriarch did not kiss the object...
When the new King says "We," he speaks as a husband, not as a sovereign. Always interested in youth movements, King Paul, as Crown Prince, has long planned a work corps of young Greeks, probably to be called the Volunteer Corps of St. George, to rebuild Greek roads. Last February, as Paul outlined the plan to a TIME correspondent, Frederika interjected: "And of course, my dear, you will go out and set an example with a shovel." "Oh yes," he said, "and we'll get some of our Ministers out there too." And both, who make no secret...
This week, as Paul I followed the coffin of George II to its tomb at the royal country estate at Tatoi (demolished by the leftists in 1944), the Greek Government was already speeding up an all-out drive against leftists. Said Paul on taking the crown: "Our eternal country calls upon us to fight for her existence. . . ." Greece had a new King, but its Government's policy was unchanged...