Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They came bearing royal gifts (Mongolian horses and a baby bear) to court British favor, but they were in a hostile land. Russia's Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist Party First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev knew it the moment their sleek cruiser Ordzhonikidze slid into Portsmouth harbor last week...
Next day, as another undemonstrative crowd watched B. & K. enter Buckingham Palace "to sign the book" (the royal family was away at Windsor), police jumped on a small boy with a toy air rifle, hustled him away. At the Soviet embassy luncheon, over vodka and caviar, Khrushchev made an appeal to British reasonableness: "Both in the Conservative Party and in the ranks of the Opposition there are those who are in favor and those who are against our visit. We regard such a situation as natural, and it does not embarrass us." Khrushchev softly pleaded for peaceful coexistence: "As people...
That evening at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, as guests of the Admiralty, it was Khrushchev's turn to talk. The "only way out" of the present world situation, Khrushchev suggested, is "to give up war altogether" and "ultimately to abolish armed forces." Entering the college, B. & K. had been rudely greeted by a loudspeaker from across the river Thames: "Here come Marshal Bulganin and Khrushchev. They are here to destroy mankind and disrupt our Empire." The voice was that of a member of the League of Empire Loyalists which, earlier in the week, had presented Prime Minister...
...Vows. By 6 o'clock on the morning of the wedding day, the happy citizenry of Monaco, glutted with public displays, fireworks, royal salutes and dancing in the streets, began to stream up the hill toward St. Nicholas Cathedral. The church was half-filled at 10, when Egypt's fat ex-King Farouk (the only even near representative of royalty to appear) came lumbering up the carpeted central staircase that was reserved for the bridal party. An alert guard decoyed him to one side. Seated way up front was Britain's frail old Author Somerset Maugham, complaining...
...time for the words "The End" to close in as the royal yacht bore the happy couple off to a honeymoon somewhere behind the setting sun. But for the bricklayer's daughter, Grace Patricia Kelly Grimaldi, and her Graustarkian Prince, it was, after all, less an end than, as in real life, only the beginning...