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Missionary Judd was more than a spiritual adviser to the Hawaiians. He was one of the first foreigners to foreswear his U. S. allegiance and become a subject of King Kamahameha III (1832-1854). He aided in establishing the first constitutional monarchy on the Islands. He served his brown-skinned monarch as Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Interior...
...Judd had been in Hawaiian service one year when the British ship Carysfort, Captain George Paulet commanding, sailed into Honolulu Harbor, prepared to take possession of the Island of Oahu. King Kamahameha, frightened, ceded his kingdom, fled to Maui, left Dr. Judd as his agent to deal with Captain Paulet. The British officer became so oppressive that Dr. Judd, unable to negotiate further with him, withdrew to the royal mausoleum in the palace yard. There by the uncertain light of a ship's lantern, Dr. Judd carried on government business using the coffin of Queen Kaahumanu...
Albert Francis Judd was a son of Dr. Judd. Following his father's example, he served King Lunalilo (1873-1874) as Attorney-General, was placed on the Supreme Court bench in 1874, was its Chief Justice from 1886 through a revolutionary period when the court acted as a balance wheel to preserve the Hawaiian Government from complete destruction...
Universita Karlova (Prague, Czechoslovakia) Fuad I, King of Egypt PH.D...
...native city of Brussels, last week, by leaping from the third story window of a dingy lodging house. Gallant and daring his spirit, fecund his imagination. In 1919, after deserting from the Belgian Army, he appeared in Coblenz dressed as a Belgian officer. Announcing himself as an emissary from King Albert, he decorated Major General Henry Tureman Allen, commander of U. S. forces in Germany, with the Belgian Military Medal of Honor and kissed him on both cheeks. The ceremony was performed before the assembled military. In Berlin, posing as Prince Adalbert, third son of the onetime Kaiser, he obtained...