Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Predictably, the loudest outcry came from Britain. THE DOG WILL DIE, WE CAN'T SAVE IT, wailed London's mass-minded Daily Mirror. Before BBC's announcer had even finished reading the Russian bulletin, more than 50 irate telephone calls began jamming the switchboard. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals averted complete telephone paralysis only when a quick-thinking operator urged all callers to "make your protest direct to the Soviet embassy, Bayswater 3628." The United Kingdom's second great humanitarian society, the National Canine Defense League, made a nationwide appeal...
...Millionaires' Row," First Secretary Yuri Modin protested in vain to massed dog lovers: "The Russians love dogs. This has been done not for the sake of cruelty but for the benefit of humanity." Britain's public was not to be soothed. Demanded Lady Munnings, wife of the Royal Academy's onetime President Sir Alfred Munnings: "Why not use child murderers, who just get life sentences and have a jolly good time in prison?"* Novelist Denise Robins rushed into print with a touching elegy: "Little dog lost to the rest of the world," it began. "Up in your...
...bathing suit, lolling on a beach with her brother, Prince Moulay Hassan. This was the kind of outrage that Sultan ben Youssef was bringing upon them, he cried. El Glaoui did not rest until he got the French to send the Sultan, Aisha, and the rest of the royal family (two wives, two other daughters, two sons, a gaggle of concubines and attendants) into exile...
...children," the Sultan said. "Call the girls by their title (i.e., Lalla), but punish them if their work is bad." The teachers took the Sultan at his word. If marks were low, the Sultan took away privileges such as attendance at palace movies, sometimes administered deserved slaps to the royal bottoms. Like her brothers and sisters, Aisha was haughty, impish and possessed with enormous-if sometimes disoriented-drive and energy. The children used to drive their father's councilors to distraction on the phone, imperiously summoning them to listen to their latest phonograph records...
...Morocco. Paradoxically, Aisha has old-fashioned ideas about marriage. She says: "I will marry the man His Majesty chooses for me. I have complete confidence in him. Love will come after marriage." An unusual statement for a leading feminist, but then Aisha is no ordinary woman: she is a royal princess and, in the last analysis, no more free to choose her own mate than Britain's Princess Margaret...