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...Buck House, however, the 28-year-old Premier Duke found the mind of the 42-year-old King-Emperor already made up that his Coronation procession should be the shortest possible and his Coronation ritual the simplest possible. Soon announced was an official route so short that the only way to make the publicly visible part of the Coronation any shorter would be to cut from Buckingham Palace straight across the park to Westminster Abbey. Seat prices along the official route promptly soared last week to as much as $200 for a small chair on a precarious roof ledge...
Pretty Maria is to marry Archduke Otto of Habsburg in case the Dictators decide on that young man's restoration as Austrian Emperor. But the Hitler luncheon last week was too internationally complex to be more than social. The Olympic Games, which had brought so many exalted persons to Berlin, had their own significance (see p. 37), but behind the German scenes last week the Nazis had joined deadly economic war with...
...Canadian pilgrimage to see King Edward dedicate the Vimy Ridge memorial in France (TIME, Aug. 3). Unexpectedly His Majesty arrived and was shouldering his way unannounced through the mass of Dominion veterans when they recognized him with shouts of "Oh boy, the King! Good old Neddy!" slapped their King-Emperor on the back, vigorously wrung his hand...
...Orangemen of Northern Ireland are fanatical adherents of the Crown, regard it as a Protestant bulwark protecting them from their Catholic enemies in the Free State. First with astonishment, then with fury, Belfast Orangemen read a recent prognostication in Reynolds Illustrated News of London that the new King-Emperor may assert himself by trying to end the feud which divides his Irish subjects and bring the whole island under one Government. If His Majesty had any such ideas the Orangemen had no use for him, and up in Belfast they promptly raised a huge portrait of Edward VIII captioned "DOWN...
...ordered promotions and transfers affecting 3,000 officers. This came as what Minister Terauchi hoped will be the last drastic step needed to restore the Army to subordination after part of it got out of hand last February, tried to murder the Premier and for a time defied the Emperor. With infinite patience General Terauchi has scrutinized the records of innumerable officers, trying to shift into key positions those of whose loyalty the Throne can be sure...