Word: monarchal
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...long ago Reza Pahlevi, the King of Kings, the Shah of Shahs, self-made Monarch & Boss of Persia, looked upon neighboring Russia's Five Year plan and found much of it good. What most strongly impressed His Majesty was the titanic bargaining power in world markets of a nation which, like Soviet Russia, places its entire foreign trade in the hands of a State Monopoly...
...maritime nations but Russia, the master of a vessel at sea is an absolute monarch. He has absolute control over his crew and passengers, can marry or bury them. Until last week discipline on Soviet ships was in the hands of trades union committees, elected by the crews, which might consist of a cabin boy, two oilers and the purser. It did not work so well. Last week by order of the Council of Labor and Defense, Russian captains became in fact masters of their vessels again...
...America for my chance, and I got it there. . . . I am by way of being a student of history. I know that the jester always pays, for the king inevitably kicks him downstairs. The most famous court clowns eventually are beheaded. But what happens to the monarch then? In nearly every case, kicking the jester has presaged the fall of the throne. . . . Patriotism is the greatest insanity the world has ever suffered. I've been all over Europe in the past few months. Patriotism is rampant everywhere, and what is going to be the result? Another war! I hope...
...three principal visitors at the White House last week were King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam and Bryan Untiedt, 13-year-old hero of last month's Colorado blizzard (TIME, April 6, 13). The ailing little King, first absolute monarch ever to cross the Executive Mansion's threshold, called on President Hoover at 10:15 one morning, hurried back to his quarters to receive the President at n, then spent the afternoon in a dentist's office. After a state dinner at the White House that evening, during which Master Untiedt was permitted to peep...
...American Legion, straining every nerve to establish a competent mechanism to insure world peace (except in cases of national honor and naval parity), then certainly no one can question the value of those sacrificed lives. Can the names of those mistaken men who fought for a foreign monarch and German Kultur be connected in any way with those who died for "the great cause?" It is hoped the CRIMSON will change its standpoint and try and see this affair in the same light as the University authorities. Robert F. Evans...