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...many hard questions. When she saw his wisdom, his piety, his house, his banquet table, his servants and their apparel, she renounced her skepticism and "there was no more spirit in her." From that lack of spirit, according to Abyssinian legend, sprang the line of Abyssinia's present monarch, crafty brown Haile Selassie. The Arabian version has it that the Queen of Sheba's name was Balkis, that she went to Solomon in fear and trembling. Consensus of scholars is that the capital of Saba (Sheba) was Mareb, about 750 mi. from last week's putative discovery...
...usually refer to the British Monarch as "George V,'' and couch the rest of the reference in language which suggests the outlook of a Kahlege Kid from the Bible Belt, rather than of the only newspaper with a modern orientated intelligence published in the Anglo-Saxon tongue...
...King's chief stock-in-trade is heirs. There was a time when long-legged Gustaf, King of Sweden and of the Goths and Wends, was more plentifully supplied with heirs than any other monarch in all Europe. He had two sons and five grandsons, hardy scions of Napoleon's General Bernadotte. In reserve to bulwark his line, he had three brothers. But these princes seemed to have a family failing for marrying commoners. Brother Oscar went first, for love of a lady-in-waiting, after renouncing his right of succession. His son Folke went next, for Estelle...
...could have his way Henry Pu Yi would like to be proclaimed constitutional Emperor of Manchukuo with as simple and comfortable a ceremony as the proclamation of last week's other new monarch, Leopold III of Belgium. But the Japan that picked him from the Chinese discard ten years ago has not paid his bills for nothing. Japan needs him as a symbol before the world of Manchukuo's independence, a hollow-eyed figurehead to distract Manchurian peasants with the pomp of a royal court...
...captured the imagination and the hearts of the world because he conformed to the illusive, universal vision of a crowned monarch. In public life he was wise, honest, and just, in private life he loved a loving wife. He could bow without condescension and kneel without servility. He was a gentleman: he was courageous: he was firm: and he was kind. His presence in a turbulent and cynical world lent some air of stability and truth to an institution that men had come to feel was fragile and dishonest. And he preserved for himself and for his own countrymen...