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King's Trade Unionist. George's meticulously kept memorandums and letters give a levelheaded record of the advice he gave his advisers. He could write a letter to a brother monarch such as the one he drafted to King Victor Emmanuel urging him to keep Italy out of the war, but he could not necessarily mail it. His Cabinet decided not to send it. He could express the opinion that it was wrong to let Gandhi out of jail, but if his Indian Viceroy (Lord Wavell) wanted to free him, there was nothing George could do. One thing...
...tiny (pop. 2,371) Pöcking, West Germany, Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 46, son of the last Austro-Hungarian monarch (Charles I) and pretender to the nonexistent Austrian throne, admitted that he had given up the good fight for feudalism, hoped to enter his homeland (from which he was barred so long as he wanted to run it) as just plain Dr. Otto Habsburg. The likely new pretender: Otto's younger brother, Archduke Robert, 44, who waits for the impossible, in Paris...
...Among the sad stories of the deaths of kings," says Author Turner, "the account of Charles II's last days is a horror-comic." When the monarch fell ill of kidney disease on a Sunday evening, Dr. Edmund King braved a death sentence by bleeding Charles without consent of his ministers. Next day they forgivingly voted Dr. King ?1,000, but sent in so many other doctors (18) that he was nearly crowded out of the royal chamber. For five days, writes Turner, the panicky new platoon tried everything on Charles except rest and privacy...
...sold a luncheon of 100 fat-cat Southern Californians-Movie Mogul Sam Goldwyn, Movie Monarch Clark Gable, et al.-on stepping up campaign contributions, thus won more TV time. From California to Chicago he warmly endorsed and posed with G.O.P. candidates, signed autographs, turned on pep talks to groups of G.O.P. precinct workers...
Lust for Blood. By far the most untrammeled passages in Nasser's speech were his attacks on Jordan's Hussein, the fearless young Hashemite monarch who had expelled the British from his country in 1957, but turned openly against Nasser when the Egyptian tried to drive him off his throne. "Hussein," said Nasser, "deviated and disavowed and deceived the people, and followed in the footsteps of his grandfather King Abdullah by inviting the British to occupy his country. Brothers, today there is treason, and another occupation, but it will end. The Arab homeland and people will eliminate...