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...firmament of the Son of Heaven a brilliant new star has risen! Supple as the neck of the swan is the charm of her graceful form. Her black and sparkling eyes, in hours of ease, envelop and thrill that happy mortal allowed to see. O, Nguyen Huu Hao! Beautiful are all thy ways...
...rice fields into the Imperial City of Huê. Prince Vinh Tuy (Bao Dai), educated from nine to 19 in France, was France's crowning accomplishment. And it was no accident that the French Resident General of Annam allowed him to fall in with pretty Nguyen Huu Hao, his very, very distant kin 150 years back. Her ancestors had been Catholic martyrs. Her father had prospered in Cochin-China under French protection. She was French-educated, pretty, smart and Catholic. Though she is a commoner, her name is great along the China Sea. But to Annamites...
Pope Pius XI smiled last week and back to Annam in French Indo-China, to little Marie Nguyen Hu Hao, 18, Chinese Catholic betrothed to Bao Dai. Buddhist Emperor of Annam, went tidings of comfort and joy. Marie's question to the Holy Father: "Would the Church sponsor her Buddhist-Catholic marriage if she gave her girl children to the Church, her boy children to the Buddhist dynasty of Annam" (TIME, March 19)? The Pope's answer, announced unofficially from Rome by way of Paris...
...little Marie Nguyen Hu Hao's views proved troublesome. She is a Catholic, wants to remain...
Buddhist who needs Buddhist sons for heirs to his throne. Last week Marie Nguyen Hu Hao appealed to Archbishop Dreyer, Apostolic Delegate to Indo-China at Hanoi. Would His Grace ask the Pope for a special dispensation? She offered the Church the female issue of her mixed marriage. Would that be enough? She hoped, in all piety and humility, for a speedy reply, for the Emperor had fixed his wedding for March...