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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colony of Northern Rhodesia (so named after its exploiter, Cecil John Rhodes). Between Elizabethville and Port Franc-qui (named after the rehabilitator of Belgium's currency, former Finance Minister Emile Francqui) lie the Katanga Mountains, rich in copper, and over them runs a 660 mile long railway which King & Queen proceeded to inaugurate. Local copper executives dolefully informed His Majesty that their Blackamoor miners have tribally combined to enforce a ruinous wage of 12? per day - the standard pay for such labor elsewhere in the Congo being...
...Century-old trees, towering above the low, squat Summer Palace, seemed to rustle discreet congratulations to a Queen now almost as venerable and quite as upstanding as they. How much the royal trees have looked upon, and how much she. . . . Princess Emma. Sixty-two was the age of dissolute King Willem III of the Netherlands, justly famed as "The Dutch Don Juan," when in 1879 he married Princess Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont, who was then...
Dutch courtiers know a story of how the little Princess made herself Queen of the Netherlands by a single bold stroke. Senile King Willem had been paying court to her elder sister, Princess Helen, who tactfully refused him on account of his age and reputation. At this crucial moment young blooming Princess Emma is said to have entered the room, exclaiming reproachfully, "Oh Helen, / should never refuse to be a queen!" To counteract the sensation produced by this generally believed tale, Princess Emma's mother herself arranged to convey a subsequently made proposal of marriage from King Willem...
More than three miles tall, the "Mountains of the Moon" tower above Central Africa, regal in tremendous ermine robes of perpetual snow. Last week a white King & Queen passed with the pomp of a state visit before the white Moon Mountains. Black buck Negroes and black buxom Negresses prostrated themselves, as was fitting, before His Majesty Albert I, King of the Belgians and of Belgian Congo Blackamoors-and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. The white Sovereigns, complacent, were on tour through their Afric domains, which are larger in area than all Western Europe and contain almost as many Blackamoors as does...
...more than a million cubic feet of water. Stopping last week beside a river of such magnitude, Their Belgian Majesties must have given many a thought to the cold, relentless businessman who first exploited good Mother Congo and her Blackamoors as his hirelings, slaves and strumpets. The strumpeteer was King Leopold II of the Belgians (1835-1909), detested uncle and immediate predecessor of beloved King Albert I. Uncle Leopold went wickedly a-travel-ing when he was Crown Prince, to India, to China, to Japan and home around Africa, with a momentous visit to Mother Congo. Memories of Congoland germinated...