Word: regente
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...foot of his tomb lay his prized French decorations, toothbrush, Thermos bottles and "Big Ben" alarm clock. Bao Dai, who had come 'home for the funeral, was crowned the 13th sovereign of the Nguyen (pronounced New Inn) dynasty. He turned the throne over to a regent, and hurried back to Paris...
...would not bake. Van Zeeland reported a total failure to Regent Prince Charles, advised a new election. The election was scheduled for June 4. It would be the third vote on the royal question within a year. Sensible Belgians, who were not letting their prolonged constitutional crisis affect their continued economic prosperity, were saying: "The English work for their government, the French work against their government, but we Belgians work despite our government...
...Little Corporal. This week the Christian Socialists stepped back for a Liberal try at the royal question. Leopold's younger brother, the Regent Prince Charles, asked the Liberals' Albert Devèze to form a government. Short, sprightly, a politician to the tips of his grey mustache, Devèze has been a Deputy Premier and Defense Minister since August 1949. Dubbed "le petit caporal" because he likes to prance on horseback in uniform, the new Premier-designate was said to be hopeful of a three-party agreement to recall Leopold on condition that the King abdicate immediately...
...typist, his queen (TIME, July 11), he touched off a problem that reached far beyond the hearths of his 100,000 subjects in Britain's Bechuanaland Protectorate. Few Bamangwato objected to Ruth. After a brief tribal squabble between the pro-Seretse forces and those of his domineering uncle, Regent Tshekedi, the tribe, their enthusiasm spurred by an unprecedented rainfall which accompanied Ruth's arrival, had declared overwhelmingly for Seretse. Final approval, however, had to come from Whitehall...
...vote of 117 to 92, Belgium's Chamber of Representatives last week decided to hold an advisory referendum on whether Leopold should return from exile to be King of the Belgians. At week's end the Regent Prince Charles signed the bill. Within 40 days the plebiscite will be held, probably on Sunday March 19. In the picric-flavored debate which preceded their vote, the Deputies had already expressed their opinions of Leopold. The Socialists were most voluble. Shouted young Socialist Deputy Victor Larock: "Leopold is not contested as the king of golf. But he always will...