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...Since the Royal person will be indispensable at jubilee observances all summer, doctors busied themselves last week with the 69-year-old King-Emperor who has resolved to exert himself once more to the very limit. Absolute rest until just before the Jubilee was the physicians' prescription. Where to get it? Since George V is adamant in his yearly decision ("I will not go to the French Riviera or anywhere outside of England"), Their Majesties graciously accepted last week the loan of an English mansion, no palace, from the Duke of Devonshire whose wife is Queen Mary...
...sunk "the balance of power in the Eastern Mediterranean would pass to Turkey." Just to be sure, three British cruisers and four destroyers were promptly sent to the British island of Cyprus. Greeks in Greece, who know that their deposed King George II is a close friend of King-Emperor George V and a frequent guest at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, suspected the worst...
Possibly to fight for Abyssinia, one U. S. Negro sailed on the Europa last week. He was "Harlem's Black Eagle," the "Negro Lindbergh," famed Col. Hubert Fauntleroy Julian who insists that the Emperor of Abyssinia made him a Colonel nearly five years ago in Addis Ababa (TIME...
...Castle and took snapshots like any other tripper. Afterward, not satisfied with the Schönbrunn guide books, he sent out an aide to get research material on that House of Habsburg that was once accustomed to occupy Schönbrunn in the summertime and on its last great Emperor, long-legged, Dundreary-whiskered Franz Josef...
...nbrunn Park and called on Franz Josef's best friend in a villa hard by. Katharina Schratt was a popular Viennese actress in her middle twenties and Kaiser Franz was nearly 30 years older when they met. Their relationship was as respectable as the staid, fussy Emperor could make it. In full uniform he used to go to her villa at 4:30 a.m. three times a week, have a stiff formal breakfast with her. The Empress was as good a friend of Käthi Schratt as he was. One by one Franz Josef's family died...