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...offices, whose constant meddling jeopardized the business of the State. The princes were swept out of their sinecures by the "revolt" of 1932, believed by many Siamese to have been hatched with at least the tacit consent of His Majesty who bobbed up smiling, no longer an Absolute Monarch but a Constitutional King. Before that revolt Prince Bavaradej served as Defense Minister in the Siamese Cabinet...
Aristocratic Samuel Talifer, an admiral At least, if mot a monarch in appearance, returned after ten years' absence to his native village, whose obvious though unstated locale is New England. There he met and fell in love with Althea. Disturbingly before their marriage he also met Karen, a heaven-wrought sheath...
...formed a design to leave behind him a monument forever fixed with his name. Alexander's fancy was of an extremely practical sort, and his project was to found a great city, to bear his name, to keep fresh his memory through the ages, and to pay tribute. The monarch summoned the best architects available, chose a site, subdivided and staked it in the fashion of real-estate visionaries throughout the ages. Had this been the conclusion of the tale Alexander the Great would have taken his place beside Nephew Napoleon and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers as judge...
...lean, seamy-faced Feisal's heart. One afternoon in Berne, having consulted with his Foreign Minister General Nuri Pasha and his brother Prince Ali on the prospect of the League of Nations investigating the Assyrian deaths, Feisal became seriously ill with a heart attack. The 50-year-old monarch, 37th direct descendant of Mohammed, refrained from eating any dinner, retired early, felt worse. At midnight Death, searching among the cool Alps for a desert chief, found King Feisal in his hotel bedroom...
...rest of the world they have their political difficulties, but nobody ever gets shot. The first of recent Siamese crises occurred a year ago when a bloodless revolution shook dozens of intelligent, inbred Siamese princes out of soft government jobs but left purblind little King Prajadhipok a constitutional monarch. Next Siamese crisis occurred last April when King Prajadhipok suddenly grew nervous at the increasing "Communism" of his first Cabinet, fired the lot of them. "Premier" Laung Pravit left hastily for France and a group of staid conservatives took his place. Again there were few objections, no blood...