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Howard Coxe says nobody has ever cared enough about her to give a fair picture of Caroline of Brunswick, consort of George IV (Regent of England from 1811 to 1820). This statement is not quite true (besides an Italian biography translated in 1907, there has been the more recent Queen Caroline by Sir Edward Parry), but Author Coxe's sympathy and well-oiled wit make his biography of much-abused Caroline a pleasant addition to Regency history...
...winter. Two days earlier the Government had nipped what it said was a plot to seize all the country's airfields, had rounded up 60 foreign "tourists"-British as well as German-in the Ploesti oil-field region. King Carol held another secret confab with Yugoslavia's regent, Prince Paul...
...Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Bishop of London, 52, an athletic, old-school-tie moralist with a wife and six sons whom he calls his "seven assets." P. M. C. was highly alarmed about "importuning in the streets" from noon until dawn in the Hyde Park, Piccadilly, Victoria, Bond, Regent and Oxford Street areas, by English, French, German, Italian and Welsh tarts aged 20 to 60. A careful checkup revealed an average of 91 importunists per hour in one street. Two police officers were accosted by 35 women along a 120-yard stretch. In the same area about 100 males were "engaged...
...various times in his life Wang Ching-wei pretended devotion for the patriarch of Chinese revolution, Dr. Sun Yatsen, deserted him, later worked for him again, watched lovingly over his deathbed; studied in Japan on Imperial Scholarships awarded by the Manchu dynasty, tried to assassinate the Manchu Prince Regent; praised Russian Communism and opposed a young rival named Chiang Kai-shek because Chiang was such a conservative, then abandoned Communism and joined Chiang in condemnation of Japan, finally deserted Chiang to become Japan's best friend in China...
...lacquer and stinking with yak-butter lamps, the Embodiment will kneel, facing east, in a big hall where envoys of foreign powers will bring him gifts. When messages from them have been read aloud, he will make three genuflections and nine prostrations in gratitude for celestial favors. The Regent will clothe the Dalai Lama in garments worn by his predecessor. Enthroned, the boy will receive homage from the high lamas. After that, everyone will banquet. The Dalai Lama will undoubtedly exhibit great dignity during these ceremonies. As child lamas usually do, for some reason, he impressed everyone with his intelligence...