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...broad-based coalition government." The way things were going back home, one diplomat cracked, "Boun Oum will be lucky to get the Education Ministry." After two days, about the only thing the princes could get together on was that they would keep amiable King Savang Vatthana as a figurehead monarch. "The King is sacred to us," said the Red Prince piously...
...nation's first President. It was, he intoned, "a sacred moment in the history of our fatherland.'' In the Afrikaners' eyes, the Boer War was finally won after six bitter decades; no longer would South Africa pay fealty to an alien English-speaking monarch in London...
...landed in his specially appointed DC-6, soon followed by two other planes bearing a retinue of 58 courtiers and five court jesters. Ostensibly, King Saud was merely returning the Kuwait ruler's visit to Saudi Arabia last October. But word in the souks was that the Saudi monarch had ac tually come to get acquainted with Sheik Abdullah al Mubarak, who, although 25 years the junior of Kuwait's ruler, is nonetheless his uncle and is slated to succeed...
...thing, he was so anxious to please Victoria's consort, the German Prince Albert, that his paintings took on the dead, glassy surface favored by the Germans. From then on, everything about his work degenerated. His famous Monarch of the Glen-a postcard stag perched upon an improbable peak-was painted for the refreshment room of the House of Lords, but Commons, in its homely wisdom, never got around to voting the money. His Dignity and Impudence is a coyly saccharine affair showing a drooping bloodhound trying to be oblivious to a cocky terrier sharing his kennel. And when...
...religions with no color bar will win Africa: the religion of Karl Marx, or Islam, where monarch and slave pray side by side in complete equality. It would be wise for the West to invest in Islam, which has tens of millions of missionaries on the spot, and which so far has held the line steadfastly against Communism...