Word: monarchal
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...morning ride through Copenhagen last week, Denmark's gaunt, brooding monarch Christian X saw something that caused him to rein in suddenly. It was the Nazi swastika waving over a public building, a rank violation of the terms which Hitler imposed on Denmark...
Until the spring of 1934, Boris was just another playful Balkan monarch. He liked most of all the boyish pastime of playing with railroad trains - real ones. His royal hobby became so famous that Yugoslav engineers named him Locomotive Führer Honoris Causa. Then in 1934 the Bulgarian Army abolished Parliament and established Boris as the somewhat bewildered figurehead of a military dictatorship. Boris buckled down to serious work and within a year made it just plain dictatorship, with the Army very much in the background. He had married Princess Giovanna, daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele...
...coaxed the King to give up his powers as dictator and vest them in Red Dog. This was the decisive step. Next night Dictator General Antonescu wore down the worried monarch further, and at 3 a.m. demanded in writing his abdication in favor of Crown Prince Mihai, a nice-looking boy just right to be a puppet. His Majesty signed away his throne two hours later...
...July, along with other U. S. envoys to the invaded Low Countries, Ambassador Cudahy was invited by the Nazis to leave Belgium. He had meanwhile visited King Leopold, seen that President Roosevelt and the U. S. press got a sympathetic account of the Belgian monarch's surrender to the Nazis. Last week Mr. Cudahy turned up in London, the guest of Ambassador Joe Kennedy...
Thus Britain acquired one more fugitive monarch, lost the only ground she had gained from the Nazis. From Narvik, once a prized ore port, nobody gained anything...