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...Spain and Portugal-the latter getting Brazil. Some three centuries later Napoleon drove John VI out of Portugal, and that monarch fled with his Court to Brazil. When things quieted down in Portugal, His Majesty returned to his beloved Lisbon; but he left behind in the "New World" as Regent, his eldest son, famed as "Dom Pedrc of Brazil." When Brazilians and their Regent presently cast off the Portuguese yoke in 1822, President James Monroe of the U.S.A. was first to recognize Dom Pedro as "Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of Brazil." Not until 1889 was the Imperial House deposed...
...Japanese Emperor to have her own "throne." She did not, howevet, occupy it when her husband, Emperor Yoshihito, was enthroned in 1915 because she was enceinte. Yoshihito Tenno, although greatly beloved, developed an impediment of the mind which caused his son (the present Tenno) to be made Regent in 1921, for Yoshihito who died...
Abyssinian Victory. Just two years ago it seemed that Italy and Britain were firmly leagued to assist each other in the joint commercial penetration of Abyssinia, backward Afric realm. Jointly the two great Powers brought pressure upon Regent Ras Taffari of Abyssinia to permit Italian exploitation of a railway and British construction of certain mighty water works for irrigating the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Smart, the Abyssinian Regent yielded momentarily, but subsequently made to the League of Nations a squa.wk so potent that British public opinion turned against the exploitation scheme? leaving in the lurch Benito Mussolini...
Perceiving that the Regent (now Emperor) of Abyssinia might yield to Royalty what he would not to statesmen, Commoner Mussolini enlisted the aid of King Vittorio Emmanuele's smart cousin, the Duke of Abruzzi. With pomp and panoply, the Duke and a suite of Royal proportions crossed the Mediterranean, sailed down the eastern coast of Africa, and then struck inland to Abyssinia and its remote capital, Addis Ababa. Of assistance in thawing the suspicious Regent's reserve was a huge, shiny Issota-Fraschini limousine, a de luxe Italian product which sells in the U. S. for some $18,000. This...
Crowned. Ras Tafari, onetime Regent of Abyssinia, now "King of Kings"; at Addis Abbaba (see ABYSSINIA...