Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month since the fall of Premier Ahmed Balafrej's conservative government, the King had been forced to shop intensively for a Cabinet that would somehow maintain his nation's delicate balance between extremes. Twice the King rejected Cabinets that he considered too far to the left, but last week he agreed to a government headed by slight, shy Abdallah Ibrahim, who is as left as they come...
Leftists also got the ministries of Interior, Agriculture and Economics. But the King saw to it that a number of middle-roaders were included in the Cabinet, and that his own nominee became Defense Minister. The post went to 36-year-old Mohammed Aoud, who is reportedly destined to marry Princess Lalla Aisha (TIME, Nov. 11, 1957), thus keeping the army in the family...
There are few genuine anarchists around these days, but those of them who happen to read Lady L. will be as infuriated as if a king, marked for assassination, caught their homemade bomb and threw it back at them. French Novelist Romain Gary, who wrote one of the best and most serious novels of 1958 in The Roots of Heaven, has turned out what is bound to be one of the most urbanely amusing novels of 1959. The Roots of Heaven was a poetic last stand in the name of freedom. Lady L. is for freedom, too-freedom from people...
...KING GEORGE VI (891 pp.)- John W. Wheeler-Bennett-St. Martin...
Bertie himself, his diary recorded, "broke down & sobbed like a child." The time was 1936, and King Edward VIII (David to his family) was about to abdicate in order to marry Mrs. Simpson. Until that time Bertie, Duke of York, had been happy to play second fiddle to a one-man band. His biographer, Oxford Don John Wheeler-Bennett, records his "agony of apprehension" lest he should become King. When the worst happened ("Led," wrote poor Bertie of himself, "like the proverbial 'sheep to the slaughter' "), and he was indeed King George VI, he said to his cousin...