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...find a way of broadening Greece's rightist Government under Dino Tsaldaris. When Tsaldaris and the centrists refused to compromise, advisers urged the King to intervene. But at this point, "he who does not laugh" was back in character. Said he sadly: "Ohi-no. I am a constitutional monarch. I can do nothing." The civil war continued, the people remained afraid and very hungry...
...Majesty, Abdullah Ibn Hussein, British-crowned monarch of Trans-Jordan, his son, Emir Naif, and a suite of 16 ministers and notables, had traveled some 900 miles (via Turkish presidential yacht and train) to discuss the dream of an all-Moslem Orient. This would include Turkey, from which the Arabs broke away during World War I. One possible purpose: to serve as a road block to Soviet expansion in the Middle East...
...over a bitter Christmas jest, "Starve with Strachey, shiver with Shin-well" (Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell)*, watched the delivery of the King's traditional gift of a hundredweight of coal to the needy of four Windsor parishes, read hungrily about the progress of a British freighter, the Highland Monarch, as it butted through the foggy Atlantic. Aboard were 250,000 turkeys from Argentina, which would help feed many a hungry Briton this Christmas...
Prince Carl Gustav, next in line for Sweden's throne after his grandfather (Crown Prince Gustav Adolf) and father (Prince Gustav Adolf), was enjoying the best year of a monarch's life-his first, with the throne as remote as it would ever be, his world still a sharkless sea of love, and every mistake forgiven. But he was already being equipped for man's estate: from the mountain Lapps he had a gift of a shield, and from Cousin Count Folke Bernadotte he had a pair of gold cuff links...
Iraq's King Feisal I used to spend his spare time playing with a tame leopard. His son, King Feisal II, 11, a more progressive monarch, has spent his summer holidays in Britain studying Western industrial methods. At an oil refinery the boy king from Bagdad sat in at a round-table discussion of scientists and technicians. In the course of the discussion one expert said: "I always find I can think much quicker when I am riding a bicycle." Asked King Feisal II: "Why don't you ride a motorbike and think twice as quickly...