Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain from a monarchy into a republic. China has gone from chaos to chaos. As an antidote for hard times Japan has taken a fling at militarism. South America has spawned too many revolutions to count. The King of Siam has ceased to be the world's last absolute monarch. Of all great foreign powers only the Russian Soviets and the Italian Fascists have not had upheavals and overturns...
...Sinaia Palace, where the new Rumanian Cabinet received their seals and swore fealty to King Carol last week, Premier Maniu seemed to end his personal feud with the scapegrace monarch in these ringing words: "We will work to consolidate the Throne! We will erect a protecting wall about...
Most fun was had in the Purple Forbidden City by Annam's late Emperor Thanh-Thai. Was there any rule of etiquet. demanded this ingenious monarch, which barred him from setting up a market in the Palace courtyard, with eunuchs to sell meat & vegetables, the Empress & concubines as buyers and His Majesty as the fishmonger? Abashed, the Keeper of the Book of Rites replied that His Majesty might have a market. Next day and every day thereafter the courtyard hummed with haggling, especially furious around His Majesty's fish booth...
...making Prince Svasti, His Highness can be serious-as befits the father-in-law of the King. In grim earnest last week Prince Svasti discussed the situation facing Siam since diminutive King Prajadhipok staved off a revolution by abdicating as an "absolute sovereign," and, as "constitutional monarch," submitted to de facto rule of Siam by a group of Army officers...
...rascal is Stephan Stephanovitch, absolute monarch of the minor Balkan kingdom of Illyria, as he sits in his shirtsleeves in the Royal Palace of Zeta playing chess with General Kosovo, his Prime Minister. Illyria is in a sad state of affairs. A foreign loan must be floated somehow, and without signing away the vast undeveloped oilfields at Tokar. Questions of the royal succession are also troubling Stephan. His eldest son Dushan had renounced his royal birthright to marry an American, and now is dead. Milan, the present Crown Prince, who shoots horses out of his way rather than walk around...