Word: kingships
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...golf and work crossword puzzles, castigates King Edward in words applicable either to His Majesty's keeping company with Mrs. Simpson or to the Sovereign's skimpy attendance at Church. "In his public capacity at his Coronation he stands for the English people's idea of Kingship!" booms the Bishop. "[The King] needs the grace of God. . . . We hope he is aware of his need! Some of us wish he gave more positive signs of such awareness." (In sending this out British Press associations suggest that editors tone it down by omissions. Next day the Bishop says...
...opinion, if given time to mobilize, would unquestionably swing into action on the side of the King. He exculpates the King from charges of deception in his having delayed his avowal until after his father's death. It is furthermore clear that the romance and the luster of the kingship would be sadly served by that insiped nondescript, the present Duke of York...
...There is nothing furtive in His Majesty's relationships with his friends. He considers his private life a thing apart from his kingship. This attitude, unusual in a King, has been so distorted by mystery and ill-founded rumor that it has placed these three persons in an invidious position...
...this time President Azafia was perhaps personally less radical than President Roosevelt. After long talks with him, cigar-chewing U. S. Ambassador Claude Bowers called Azafia the greatest living Spaniard, compared his ideals with those moderate motives which inspired George Washington and the American Colonists to shake off English Kingship. In Spain the Right knew what to think when Republican Azafia proved unable to suppress political violence and murder even in the streets of Madrid, made the philosophical assertion: "Violence is deeply enshrined in the Spanish people. The time has not yet come for Spaniards to stop shooting one another...
Panayoti Tsaldaris, though determined to restore the Throne and strong with the prestige of having just put down a Republican Revolution, is somewhat skittish about her cousin, ex-King Georgios II. One year was the short span of "Gorgeous Georgios' " kingship twelve years ago, and his childless ex-Queen divorced him recently (TIME, July 15). Two months ago Marina let it be understood that she, at any rate, is fecund. Last week the British public was supposed to think that the prospective young mother was merely resting in Yugoslavia at Prince Paul's romantic Bohinjsko Castle where...