Word: ii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...huge embarrassment of his Labor Government, George V refused to shake the hand of any representative of Soviet Russia, for it was the Soviet Government which decreed the assassination in 1918 of a brown-bearded, nervous little man known to the world as His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II, Tsar of All the Russias, known still to George V of Britain as "Dear Cousin Nicky...
...Bucharest the news from Athens warmed the cockles of many a Rumanian heart. One of the sons-in-law of dynamic Dowager Queen Marie is insipid Georgios II, deposed King of the Hellenes. Doubtless he would resume his rule if by any remote chance Greece should go Royalist...
...Author. Bernard Faÿ, 36, unmarried, was born in Paris, has taken all possible French professorial degrees, is Professor in the Faculty of Letters in the University of Clermont-Ferrand. During the War he served as captain, won the Croix de Guerre, Médaille de Léopold II. Since 1921 he has spent alternate years in France and the U. S. lecturing at Columbia, Chicago, Northwestern, Iowa State universities. Other Fa books: A Panorama of Contemporary French Literature, The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America at the Close of the Eighteenth Century, Since Victor Hugo: French Literature...
...statistical annual," has been no mean task. Bound by tradition to list only the members of regal, princely and ducal families, the genteel editors have been obliged by a shortage of European aristocracy to fill their sedate pages with such families as those of His Highness Seyyid Sir Khalifa-II-bin-Haroub-bin-Thuwaini, Sultan of Zanzibar; His Highness Maharadjad-hiradja Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jan Bahadur of Nepal, Shah Bahadur Shamshere-Jung. Maharadja of Nepal; and His Highness Seyyid Timour-bin-Feysal, Sultan of Oman...
...Unlike Ludendorff, who now is going crazy, he never proclaimed himself a God-inspired military genius, or even took personal credit for his armies' triumphs. Almost feminine in grace, he of all the German generals never failed to kiss the hand of his close friend and chief, Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was and is the prime personification of Prussian Kultur as it conceived itself to be ? Feld marschall August von Mackensen...