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...Brahmaputra valley, mutilated and doomed to a childless future. Unable to marry, he took to the sea, which he said "wants nothing but a gallant heart from her lover." He put into Blidah Fort, Borneo, helped suppress a rebellion against a Malay prince, wound up by becoming absolute monarch of 50,000 square miles of viciously virginal jungle in northwest Borneo...
...Arabia a present of coffee is a pledge of friendship stronger than any written pact, and for years Britain has courted the friendship of fanatically religious, 65-year-the old Yahya ibn Hamid-ed-Din, Imam of Yemen. A notably independent, notably stingy monarch, he for years nursed a boundary grudge against the British Government, listened attentively to the blandishments of Italy's would-be imperialists. But his camel loads of coffee meant that at last he was on Britain's side...
...Prince Regent Pedro received a batch of dispatches from Portugal telling of oppressive measures planned for the colony. Then & there Prince Pedro uttered what Brazilians now call the Grito de Ypiranga: "Independence or death!" He revolted against his father the Emperor, declared Brazil independent, became its first monarch, Dom Pedro I. Although Brazil later overthrew his son, Dom Pedro II, and became a republic, Brazilians this week celebrated the 119th anniversary of their independence with as little animosity toward Portugal as U.S. citizens now feel toward Great Britain on the Fourth of July...
...Century Explorer Jacques Cartier told his monarch in France that the Saguenay River in Quebec flowed through a land of gold and rubies, oranges and almonds, wherein dwelt men with no digestive organs, square bodies, and only one leg. Almost as unbelievable, for a modern nation at war, was the story last week, also from Saguenay, of how most of Canada's aluminum industry had been put out of action for weeks to come. The stoppage occurred at the $150,000,000 Aluminium, Ltd. plant at Arvida which, using cheap water power to process ship-borne bauxite ore from...
...year-old monarch succeeded in leaving Crete on Friday after a four-day flight during which a New Zealand bodyguard sometimes battled the Germans only 800 yards behind to cover the escape of the King and his party...