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...British system. The Italian Senate resembled the British House of Lords. Senators were (and still are) appointed for life by the King on the nomination of the Premier. The Chamber of Deputies, elected by universal suffrage, was like the House of Commons. It initiated legislation, formed and overthrew governments, held the actual reins of power. Now this system of government no longer exists even in form...
...Imperial Highness Prince Louis Napoleon† commonly flings some such ringing piece of Corsican bravado as "My name is the most glorious guarantee France has ever had of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity!" Because the original, short, squat Napoleon smashed the First Republic of France, and the second Bonaparte overthrew the Second Republic, the Third Republic has always up to now refused to do homage to L'Empereur. Last week the Bonapartist cause was finally considered so dead, the Pretender so harmless, that at Ajaccio in Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon, an oration in honor of the first Bonaparte...
During the War Estonians overthrew a native Bolshevik regime which had held their capital for five weeks. Next they fought off the Germans, who undertook to "police" Estonia after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Finally they faced an invasion of the Russian Reds. From a prison camp, into which the Germans had flung him, emerged one Konstantin Pats, just in time to help lead Estonian forces which drove off the Red Army invaders. Last week, determined Konstantin Pats, now Acting President of the Republic, celebrated at Tallinn Estonia's 20th birthday...
...year have been grimly preparing to hurl a supreme counteroffensive against Shanghai's Japanese invaders as the best way of celebrating famed Double-Ten, "The 10th Day of the 10th Month," which fell this week on Sunday, the 26th Anniversary of the Revolution of 1911 by which Chinese overthrew the Manchu Dynasty. All last week the muddy highway from Nanking, China's capital, to Shanghai was crowded and at times choked with tractors dragging heavy artillery, huge motor trucks wallowing forward with munitions, pack trains of heavily-loaded beasts and column after column of Chinese soldiers slogging...
...whereabouts of Edward VIII last week were Greece (see p. 22), and Turkey. At Istanbul the greatest statesman in the Near East, Kamal Ataturk, who overthrew the Turkish Sultanate and Caliphate, abolished the fez and is rapidly making the Turkish Republic a powerful and modern State, undertook to send the British royal party comfortably home overland. For this purpose the Turkish Presidential Train was transferred from Asia to Europe by ferrying it across the Bosporus. Quitting the $1,350,000 chartered royal yacht Nahlin and chuffing into Bulgaria, Edward VIII in a general way made for London, giving out that...