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...married to an American girl, the former Margaret Lawler. Unlike most of the other 561 princely potentates (see cuts), he is known for his liberalism. He speaks for himself, perhaps not for others whose kingdoms, as Lord Halifax said, are "enshrined in solemn treaties" between them and their King-Emperor. Junior announced: "Isolation of the Indian states is now a thing of the past and I hope they will associate themselves more directly with national aspirations...
...English climate and the English countenances were cool. They called her father "The Emperor," but there was no conviction in their tones. The family seldom left the brownstone walls of their house in Bath, or the garden, tight-screened by cedar trees...
Died. Princess Tsahai, 22, younger daughter of Emperor Haile Selassie; at Lekamti, Ethiopia...
Like Hirohito of Japan, Emperor Luis Felipe Huaraca Duchicela XXVI is a scion of the sun. Unlike Hirohito, the legitimate heir to the golden throne of the Incas has offered to remain neutral in World War II. But one day last spring the Emperor's neutrality became strained. In fact, Huaraca XXVI got hopping mad. For continental defense purposes Ecuador had offered to lend the U.S. use of a plot of "sacred land" donated to the Emperor by the Santa Elena City Council-the very spot where the "Only Inca" had intended to build a summer palace...
...short, fat, dark-haired Emperor, who earns his living teaching English, is a collateral descendant of the last reigning Inca, Atahualpa. He is the self-styled spiritual leader of 10,000,000 Indians and head of the unofficial Inca Monarchist Party. Now that white men are destroying each other in a global war, the way is being prepared for restoration of Ttahuantinsuyu ("the Four Quarters of the World") to the Indians. He himself may never see that day. But to his son, Prince Calvino Luis Felipe Huaraca Duchicela, may come his rightful heritage: dominion over all the lands between Quito...