Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only Gilbert and Sullivan could do justice to England's royal marry-go-round. In the center ring the emperor of one sixth of the world kneels before a twice-divorced charmer from the southland, while on either side the lords temporal and spiritual beat their breasts in dismay, the American press makes the cables blush, and there is distinct teeth gnashing in the orchestra pit. Last week the Communist Party investigated reports that Mrs. Simpson was pro-fascist, but the situation is losing its farcical nature, and certain events show that England's ruling class is profoundly disturbed...
...arrived at the same moment. Puzzled Caulaincourt ran down to the courtyard to see about getting through the Allied lines, found when he returned that Ragusa was involved in mysterious negotiations with the enemy. But Ragusa was one of Napoleon's most trusted officers. "No one," the Emperor said, "inspires me with more confidence." Worried, Caulaincourt hustled Ragusa into a carriage and carried him on to Paris. The emissaries stopped at Allied field headquarters on the way. There Ragusa raced to the Allied commander alone, conferred secretly, then smugly announced that his private negotiations had been broken off. Caulaincourt...
...treachery, clarified another with his account of Napoleon's attempted suicide a week later. Last year the first volume of this extraordinary document was offered U. S. readers under the title With Napoleon in Russia. Last week the second and concluding volume retraced the stages of the Emperor's decline to the time of his departure for Elba. Together the two books constitute an amazing picture of the smashing of a world power, the first volume more readable as a connected narrative, the second more notable for its explicit records of events over which historians have speculated endlessly...
...outspoken he often exasperated Napoleon, Caulaincourt had opposed the war with Russia, refused to flatter his Emperor, so that, although the Corsican tormented his General, Napoleon also had a nervous desire for his praise and a respect for his honesty. This feeling deepened as Napoleon went down, until on the night of his attempted suicide he poured out his story to Caulaincourt alone while the sweat broke out on his sunken features and he waited for the poison to take effect. The poison was opium, belladonna and white hellebore. Napoleon's stomach rejected it and in place...
...treachery; what followed were the convulsions of its death-agony. Another addition to the 40,000 books about Napoleon, Author Aubry's St. Helena, also published last week, carries the story of Napoleon's personal decline to its miserable conclusion. An exhaustive record of the Emperor's last six years, St. Helena is a superb piece of composition that remains interesting through its 500 pages. Beginning with Waterloo, it clips along like a good melodrama through Napoleon's flight, his success in winning the friendship of one antagonistic English jailer after another. A strange bunch...