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...surprised some. We picked him because that year he had "carried his country into brilliant focus before a pop-eyed world." He was Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Power of Trinity I, King of Kings, Elect of God, Light of the World, Conquering Lion of Judah. Man of 1936 was a woman-Wallis Warfield Simpson-and 1937's choice was a couple: Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek...
...porticoed Gebbi (Imperial Palace) overlooking Addis Ababa, bearded Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Lion of Judah, Emperor of Ethiopia, looked upon his savage subjects with satisfaction. In his hands after twelve long months was a new agreement, signed & sealed by the British Minister. For the first time since the Italians swooped on Ethiopia like a buzzing, deadly locust swarm nine years ago, his country was again independent, or close...
...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 Bragança. His great-grandson takes his royal status seriously, but does not expect to become an Emperor...
Archduke Felix, tall, thin, third-string heir to Austria-Hungary's vanished throne, bobbed up in Mexico City (first Habsburg to visit Mexico since his ancestor, the Emperor Maximilian, was shot there), denied that his visit was political, failed to get audiences with Mexico's President Avila Camacho. Russia's Ambassador Constantine Oumansky departed declaring that if he had his way Spanish would replace German as Austria's national tongue...
...Japs were grateful to Wang. Last week the Japanese Government ordered a state funeral for him. Emperor Hirohito posthumously conferred on Wang the Collar of the Chrysanthemum, Japan's highest award to the head of a foreign state. Adolf Hitler, or someone acting for him, cabled condolences to Madame Wang...