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Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Farouk's ex-brother-in-law,* is a nice liberal young man, who likes to call himself a "working monarch." He owes his throne to his father. Reza Shah Pahlevi, a mighty man who rose from sergeant to emperor. (The British confirmed Reza's kingship after World War I, but broke him in World War II.) The young Shah's sensitivity over his family's short claim to royal legitimacy helps render him indecisive...
...days later, 7 2-year-old Mossadegh faced 32-year-old Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Iran's well-meaning but weak monarch. He began naming the ministers for his new cabinet (TIME, July 21). "What about the War Minister?" the Shah asked. Replied Mossadegh: "I will take charge of the War Ministry, Sire...
...imperialism; in fact they were the vanguard of an uglier imperialism: Communist China's. Waist-deep in swamp and jungle fighting in the Red River delta, the French could do little to defend their Cambodian proteges from Communist attack. Instead, the 3,000,000 Cambodians relied on their monarch, 29-year-old King Norodom Sihanouk...
...clean up Egyptian politics seemed almost hopeless. The courts were jammed with tax-evasion cases. The battle to win sovereignty of the Sudan for King Farouk had made little headway, despite endless talks with the British. On top of all of this, it now seemed to Hilaly that his monarch, on whom he had counted, was weakening...
When Belgium's 21-year-old King Baudouin, the world's most eligible bachelor monarch, left to join his family for a visit in Italy, wishful matchmakers thought they could hear the distant peal of royal wedding bells. The object of their speculation: Princess Margherita, 22, a cousin of the late King Victor Emmanuel. It was more than coincidence, they insisted, that members of both families had met in Rome and Florence...