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What many a Greek "royalist" leader wanted was a monarchy with himself as Regent. Time & again the Government of Royalist Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris has named a date for a plebiscite on Monarchy v. Republic, time & again postponed it. Last week a few surviving republicans and at least two monarchist cliques were preparing coups d'état suitable to a poor, intrigue-ridden nation on the end of the Balkan peninsula, when tough, fierce-eyed, mustachioed War Minister George ("Little Corporal") Kondylis beat them to the draw...
Obscure by preference and by the nature of his functions, and an officer of the University unknown to students who followed the relatively straight and narrow path, was Matthew Luce '91, Regent. On Monday, July 1, the University News Office published the shortest release it has issued: "The resignation of Matthew Luce '91 as Regent of Harvard was announced today. Mr. Luce has been Regent since...
Since his resignation his vague remaining duties have been given over to the general supervision of the Dean's Office, with Assistant Dean Lewis in charge of details. With its occupant gone and its functions dispersed, the office of Regent, including the forgotten Parietal Committee, has once more faded into the obscurity from which it bounced in July to make news for one day--the day of its ending...
...issued a general admonition: ''If one sees the Prince dining in a restaurant, keep your head lowered. Do not stare." These precautions having been taken, Budapest reporters who covered H. R. H. & friends this week limited themselves to stating that he shot wild boars with the Regent of Hungary, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya...
Since small paragraphs about the Duke and Duchess of Kent had to appear, as usual,, in London society columns, the Duke was reported to be "fishing during the day" while Premier Tsaldaris conferred at the Palace with the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul, and Yugoslavia's Dowager Queen Marie. Marina had the best possible excuse for not going fishing with her George. All Greece believed that she was fishing with Tsaldaris. In London the Duke was covered by Court intimations that "His Royal Highness avoided meeting Premier Tsaldaris, since His Majesty's Government would not permit such negotiations...