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Last week when his 18th birthday came, Peter was King already, had been since March when his regent uncle Prince Paul abdicated rather than fight the Nazis. There was no birthday fete in German-held Belgrade. Instead, exiled King Peter, a slim soft-spoken boy whose dearest wish is an R.A.F. commission, celebrated quietly in England, told reporters he thought the time was ripe for a British invasion of Italy...
...hangers-on. Also reigning in another section of the hotel drawing room were the fathers, who did not cease to beam all afternoon. Gurgled Washington Post Society Pundit Hope Ridings Miller: "More men-young and older-than one usually sees at afternoon parties were on hand for the pleasant fete, which was accented by lively music from an orchestra that flourished on one side of the ballroom, and a gay company that filled every nook and cranny all over the place...
...President died, and nowhere could one buy raki, the anisette drink which Atatürk often guzzled for hours on end. Istanbul burst out with such a display of the red-with-white-crescent Turkish flags that although all were at half mast, they made the city look en fete instead of in grief, and the Government asked that all flags except those on public buildings be withdrawn...
...have been arrests for speeding, breaking photographers' cameras. In Paris, where he went the evening after the Battle of Flowers, Son John sought the diplomatic advice of his father's friend, Ambassador William C. Bullitt, then explained to the press that he had indeed attended the Cannes fete in a carriage put at his disposal by the proprietor of his hotel, but had not attacked the mayor, remembered nothing of the incident. Said he: ''I never met the mayor of Cannes. There were no speeches. I don't know anything about it. . . . It certainly must...
...never did any such thing at home and I can't imagine him doing any such thing abroad. If it happened. I am sure he didn't know the identity of the mayor. It is a perfectly understandable thing for any youngster to do, in such a fete, where everyone was throwing flowers and celebrating, if he didn't know who the mayor...