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Anna and the King of Siam, by Margaret Landon, is a digest and condensation of the writings of Anna Leonowens, an English officer's widow who in 1862 was hired to teach English to the Siamese monarch's numerous wives and children. Always interesting and sometimes charming, it is surprisingly unsensational for a story of life in a harem...
...football stories ("from the woman's point of view") for the Oakland, Calif. Tribune. Not long after her husband, Robert John Herwig, an All-America footballer, brought home a book on King Charles II, she decided to write a novel about the reign of Britain's gamiest monarch...
Inside Yugoslavia, the growing Parti san movement more & more took matters into its own hands. If King Peter was not interested in the Partisans, for their part they saw little reason to be interested in their absentee monarch. This feeling in creased when the King made Mihailovich a General and Minister of War. Slowly but surely the Partisan movement became also a resistance movement against the old Government...
...King Alfonso XIII. From his Swiss villa on Lake Geneva, where he will stay until the skiing season opens, the Infante made it known that he was against "totalitarian policies," was "calmly and confidently" waiting for a call to Madrid. He had reason. Britain might right royally welcome a monarch in that bulwark of Empire, Spain...
Officially We Know Nothing. Another Balkan monarch, Bulgaria's seven-year-old King Simeon II, may also owe his tottery throne to the Soviet Union. Said the same official: "Moscow should have informed us of an understanding with Bulgaria. It did not. So, officially, we do not know anything about it. But several indications have come to us, mainly from Ankara, pointing to the probability of the existence of a Soviet-Bulgarian understanding...