Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England the news that the King, as King, wanted to marry Mrs. Simpson was the final culmination of a tide of events sweeping the United Kingdom out of its cozy past and into a more or less hectic and "American" future. Against this trend the spirit of John Bull resolutely set himself, and the flesh was that of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin. The Prime Minister provoked the entire crisis, which otherwise might never have arisen as a crisis, by making publicly in the House of Commons the first official statement that King Edward was actually resolved to marry...
...nomination, the supreme spiritual ruler of the largest of the world's Christian groups, temporal ruler of but a tiny kingdom, Our Holy Father, Pius...
...Clemenceau conception of Russia as a politically infectious area around which should be drawn a "sanitary cordon." In Bucharest the immensely tall, Mongoloid statesman who in a struggle of many years weakened this conception and secured mutual diplomatic recognition of each other by the Soviet Union and the Rumanian Kingdom (TIME, June 18, 1934) was M. Nicholas Titulescu. His influence recently waned, he was forced to resign as Foreign Minister. An invalid on the French Riviera, he has claimed that secret agents of an unspecified power poisoned...
Upon new King George called last week "The Next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom," as many call hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain. Meanwhile a bona fide offer of $1,000,000 to go to Hollywood had been cabled to the Duke of Windsor & Mrs. Simpson (see p. 31) and, however remote acceptance was from their minds, it behooved the United Kingdom not to be niggardly with the Duke. At 5%, the interest on $1,000,000 is $50,000 per year and the Chancellor of the Exchequer was presently reported to have agreed with...
...fears that when the next war comes U. S. citizens may have a slogan as important as "Remember the Maine!"-namely, "Remember Mrs. Simpson!"-and be disinclined to rush overseas a second time to help the "Mother Country" fight. Not in the least far-fetched in the United Kingdom today, this authentic fear was giving serious concern in Whitehall. In 1936 thus far Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin has received at No. 10 Downing St. no U. S. citizen of however great distinction, excepting diplomats, and to a member of his own Cabinet who attempted to introduce an American he replied...