Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cown ¶George V by the Grace of God King, Emperor of India and Defender of the Faith looks almost exactly like the late Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, and has never forgiven Bolsheviks for butchering his first cousin. Last week, as Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden arrived in Moscow to confer with Joseph Stalin (see p. 19), King George again found means to show his strong feelings. Unimpressed by the fact that Bolshevik leaders were drinking his health at Moscow in champagne, an all-time high for hypocrisy, George V called to Buckingham Palace...
...Rested by his recent seaside holiday, mellow old George V last week felt fit as a Stradivarius for his exhausting Silver Jubilee which commences May 6. Shushing the royal physicians, who favored further rest, the King-Emperor insisted on doing two major chores...
...familiar, for one reason or another, with Morelia, its capital city. There 152 years ago was born Don Agustin de Iturbide. Not even a name north of the Rio Grande, Don Iturbide was a minor Mussolini 100 years ahead of his time. He became dictator of Mexico, was proclaimed Emperor Agustin I only one year after the last Spanish viceroy was driven out. Emperor Agustin reigned for only one winter, left for Europe, returned and was executed. So, 43 years later, was Mexico's Third Emperor, fluffy-whiskered Maximilian. Tragic Maximilian chose Morelia as the site for a summer...
Claudius the God picks up the first-person narrative where /, Claudius dropped it, at Claudius' unwilling coronation as Emperor. Middleaged, ugly, crippled, the despised fool of his family as he had been the butt of his nephew Caligula's court, Claudius had only one desire: to keep out of the limelight, end his days plodding away at his secret historical writing. Furthermore, he was a convinced Republican and thought Emperors a bad thing for Rome. Because his only choice, however, was between the throne and an ignominious death, he sat down in the imperial seat with what grace...
...Claudius found that being an Emperor was even more complicated than it looked. His old schoolmate Herod Agrippa gave him good advice and remained his best friend, even when politics made them mortal enemies. With the best will in the world Claudius made mistakes, and an emperor's mistakes were hard to correct. But he kept hard at it, turned many a laugh on his critics by his homely shrewdness, gradually built up a solid popularity with the Roman populace. His greatest personal triumph was his successful campaign against Britain, when his bookish tactics went like clockwork...