Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frances, Countess of Warwick, 68, widow, philanthropist, wrote in the April Cosmopolitan:-"! prophesy with no small amount of confidence that King George V ?or maybe his successor?will appear in history as the last monarch of his nation. . . . The Prince of Wales would make an admirable first president of a new republic...
...Apple Cart. In the later years of his life George Bernard Shaw, his spirit and eloquence unimpaired, has relinquished Socialism and the kindred shibboleths of his younger days to make obeisance before his King and, by implication, every wise, considerate monarch who ever occupied a throne. The hero of the first Shavian drama in six years is Magnus, an English ruler of the future. Skyscrapers now loom above London; the betasselled chambers of Buckingham Palace have been renovated in the glass-and-metal fashions of the modernists; poverty has been eliminated, and all England is a jerry-built, bourgeois panorama...
...George and Queen Mary put etiquette in their royal pockets and went to the house of Viscountess Astor, where they were in effect presented to Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford. Long, informal and marked by cordiality on both sides was the ensuing chat between the King of Men and the Monarch of Motors, a chat which may just possibly have been momentous and lucky for Ireland...
...ideas of Burton Holmes, travel-lecturer interviewed in this issue, on the general topics of prohibition, education and the democratic form of government. According to this widely-travelled observer, the United States is not likely to achieve temperance, education is impossible without affectation, and rule by an absolute monarch--friendly of course--is more to be desired than rule by a majority. This has all been said before. To criticise the existing order has never been difficult...
...thing a few weeks later when Elder Statesman Nicholas Muchanoff, who might have been expected to make the legal aspects of the match, was followed to Rome by dashing General Ivan Wolkoff, close intimate of Tsar Boris, a cavalier well able to achieve the amorous aspect of a monarch's suit...