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...London one midnight last week two cars pulled up before the brightly lighted house at No. 3 Belgrave Square. Out stepped two famed obstetricians, one famed anesthetist. Inside they were met by King-Emperor George V's youngest son George, Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews, Baron Downpatrick, in a fine state of nerves. Upstairs they found Nurse Louise Roberts and Nurse Ethel Smith, a bucktoothed, grey-haired favorite of the Greek royal family who had just taken a "refresher course" at St. Christopher's Nursery Training College. After eleven months of wedlock George's Greece...
Britain's new prince has a very thin chance of ever becoming King-Emperor. Now seventh in line of succession to the throne, he will drop further behind as his uncles and young cousins propagate. His prime distinction is that he is the first son of a son of King George...
Fact was, George II and the Greek people have no ardent love for one another. George, who is the protege and frequent houseguest of Britain's King-Emperor George V, seemed especially dubious of the invitation of General Kondylis, who is an open admirer of Benito Mussolini. In London the King's aide told newshawks that everything was still uncertain and in Athens Regent Kondylis replied that, if George refused to return, he would find another King...
...best-born pretender in Europe, Otto of Habsburg, ''Emperor of Austria and Apostolic King of Hungary," was so chagrined by George's good luck that he hastened to rebuke Austria for not having done the same for him, indicated that he is the solution to Europe's peace and hoped that Austria would hurry before it was obliged to summon him to rule "a heap of ruins...
King George V, Pope Pius XI, Trotsky, the Emperor of Japan and Mahatma Gandhi are the stars of the author's side show, with Communism cast as the Wild Man from Borneo, and Fascism "the grinning skull at the victor's post-war banquet." Hitler. Roosevelt, Stalin, Mussolini and Mustapha Kemal are a shade less formidable, while the Freemasons, J. P. Morgan. Chiang Kaishek, Baron Rothschild, Sir Henri Deterding, Michailoff, head of the Macedonian terrorists, are exploited as men of mystery engaged in sinister doings. So far as its direct political interpretation is concerned, the dominant message communicated...