Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours later the dead King's tall (6 ft. 3 in.), 45-year-old brother stood before the civil and military dignitaries of Greece and took the sovereign's oath. The assemblage rumbled: "Zito o Vassileus Pavlos" (Long Live King Paul...
...young (30), pretty helpmeet and first cousin once removed (Paul is a grandson, Queen Frederika a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria) has worked hard to overcome original Greek impressions that she was a flippant pro-German society matron. When grandfather Kaiser Wilhelm died, German-born Frederika* ostentatiously wore a bright red hat, let it be known that she wanted no offers of condolence. She has learned Greek, turned her charms on wealthy and influential Greeks, made an enthusiastic admirer of South Africa's Field Marshal Smuts. Last week the Greek Royalist press said...
When the new King says "We," he speaks as a husband, not as a sovereign. Always interested in youth movements, King Paul, as Crown Prince, has long planned a work corps of young Greeks, probably to be called the Volunteer Corps of St. George, to rebuild Greek roads. Last February, as Paul outlined the plan to a TIME correspondent, Frederika interjected: "And of course, my dear, you will go out and set an example with a shovel." "Oh yes," he said, "and we'll get some of our Ministers out there too." And both, who make no secret...
This week, as Paul I followed the coffin of George II to its tomb at the royal country estate at Tatoi (demolished by the leftists in 1944), the Greek Government was already speeding up an all-out drive against leftists. Said Paul on taking the crown: "Our eternal country calls upon us to fight for her existence. . . ." Greece had a new King, but its Government's policy was unchanged...
After Evelyn Knight's first big-time broadcast (with Paul Whiteman), her singing teacher wired: "YOU NEED ME," After her second broadcast, he wired: "YOU HAVE NO MORE VOICE THAN A GOAT AND A MOUTHFUL OF CONSONANTS...