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...jeweled howdhah or a Rolls Royce, would always enjoy a Maharanee's exclusive privilege of wearing golden bracelets on her ankles. They had no sympathy for and viewed with alarm a decision just handed down by the Hindu Court of Nasik. In effect the court unfrocked the Hindu Pontiff Shankara Racharya and held that all his holy acts are void. One such act was to receive Miss Miller into the Hindu faith as a true convert. Another was to marry her to her ex-Maharaja. A third was to impart a "coconut baptism" to her child...
...complain that one is not getting enough press publicity is to appear undignified and ridiculous-unless one is a personage inherently dignified and sacred. Last week the Vatican daily, Osservatore Romano, complained that the Supreme Pontiff's latest encyclical, dealing with Education, had received the very meagrest publicity in the Fascistized press of Italy...
Meanwhile what was the Supreme Pontiff eating for breakfast? "We were obliged to send out hurriedly for some rolls," said a Papal functionary, "inasmuch as the Holy Father's frugal breakfast consists almost entirely of bread...
...convenience sake the Panchen Lama might be called the "Buddhist Pope," and the Dalai Lama the temporal pontiff of Tibet. Just at present these two most holy persons are at outs, the Sovereign Dalai Lama holding his court at Lhasa, Tibetan capital, and the Panchen Lama roving about war-torn China with the immunity and pomp of a walking deity. In honor of this little man on whom rests the duty of maintaining Buddhist doctrines pure, an invigorating banquet was tendered by Governor-General Chang at which hot tiger's blood was drunk...
Whatever the Royal cortège lacked in grandeur was more than made up by pomp displayed by the Supreme Pontiff. At the technical frontier of the minuscule Vatican State the eight motor cars stopped. There, brilliant in the warm December sunshine stood Commendatore Serafini, Governor of Vatican City; Prince Massimo, Papal Postmaster General, gorgeous in hose, doublet and a stiff medieval ruff, with a red-plumed morion on his head; and Commendatore de Mandato, general of the Pope's Armies. Out of his automobile stepped short-legged Vittorio Emanuele III, in the grey-green and silver dress uniform...