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...word. Exiled King Leopold had agreed, if he were allowed to return to Brussels, to transfer the throne temporarily to his son Prince Baudouin. This was acceptable to anti-Leopoldist Socialists and Liberals, if Leopold would guarantee not to interfere with Baudouin's regency. Some suggested that the monarch might stay in the Belgian countryside and devote himself to golf; others proposed the Congo. Then from Switzerland Leopold himself cut in huffily: "It is not necessary that I be asked for guarantees, which can add nothing to the value of my word...
...French in 1860. Its bid for home rule dates from Skirmishes in the 70's to the wholesale revolt which began after World War II and which still goes on. France's cure for the Viet Namese problems is a semi-autonomous government headed by Emperor Bao-Dai, native monarch who had considerable pre-war support. But under the past which put Bao-Dai, in office last year, France retains control over Viet Nam's foreign policy and of the Viet Namese army in war-time; France keeps military bases and economics privileges which were bludgeoned out of Viet...
...Left Bank cafes. Two of them were Pridhi Banomyong and Phibun Songgram, who were to become rivals and to alternate in control of modern Siam. The revolutionists returned in 1932 to stage a coup which made Siam a constitutional monarchy. King Prajadhipok ceased to be the last absolute monarch left in the world...
...stimulated. Ideally, says Quinn, "we try to find a story of fairly simple people in an extraordinarily emotional situation." But the ideal specifications cannot always be met. Last week's show, The Queen's Husband, written by Robert Emmet Sherwood in 1928, told how a constitutional monarch outwitted a domineering wife and a dictatorial prime minister by uniting with a Communist-Labor coalition. Kraft's version emerged as pure Graustark, with not a Communist in sight...
After the intermission she acted her own "The Wives of Charles II." In this series of historical mores she is able to show the character of the Merry Monarch entirely through the personalities of the men in his life. In succession, Miss Skinner played Charles' mother, a Dutch tavern girl, Lady Chartlemaine, Louise de Queroalle, Nell Gwyn, and Katherine of Braganza. As Nell, the London orange girl who became Drary Lane's leading lady, and then in Nell's own words, "danced her way into the royal bed," she displayed much of the good-natured, earthy charm that must have...