Word: processional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Foreign representatives in the procession through London. In civilian clothes among them is a member of the Rumanian order of Mihai Viteazul, the equivalent to the British V. C., representing Transylvania."
. . . We have carefully looked over all the pictures we have preserved of [George V's funeral] and we fail to find any such figure as that of Mr. Stoebs anywhere, at any stage of the procession, much less next to King Carol. . . .
Will your self-correcting service dispose of the following item which I clip from the Manchester Guardian Weekly for Feb. 7, 1936. It concerns, of course, the mysterious stranger in the funeral procession of the late King George V.
In good faith and upon the best available information TIME identified, with picture, the mysterious marcher in the London funeral procession as Masseur Stoebs. Having discovered its error TIME now apologizes to all concerned. The Manchester Guardian identifies the mysterious marcher as follows:
So to contrive that Bolshevik Russia and Republican France should somehow be linked in close mutual accord has become a ruling passion with the wealthy No. 1 Socialist of France, that exquisitely cultivated Jew and famed rabble-rouser, M. Léon Blum. From rostrums as various as the curbstone...