Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, visiting her daughter, Princess Juliana, went shopping in little Lee, Mass. "Good morning, Queen," said the drugstore man. The ruler from the land where people scrub their homes with soap & water bought a sponge. "I am old-fashioned," she explained. "Everybody else uses a washcloth, but I like a sponge for my bath." She moved on to the furniture store. "Good morning, Your Majesty," said the furniture-store man. The Queen priced linoleum, bought an inexpensive grade. It was for the bathroom floor; her granddaughters had been splashing it with water. She moved...
Died. Sidi Ahmed II, 80, Bey of Tunis; in Tunis. An elegant, round little man, bearded, pince-nez'd, for 13 years he was a figurehead ruler of the French protectorate, enjoyed a peaceful "reign" of cooperation with the French, amassed a full treasury, an enviable harem...
...arrived to try to arrange Lend-Lease supplies for Greek forces in Palestine, and to raise food for the dying, despairing population of his conquered country. It was a new, sober life for the tall, handsome, 51 -year-old, once easy going ruler...
...Petain in Versailles and shifted the Vichy Government to Paris. At any rate, Laval was arrested and imprisoned in his chateau at Chatel-don (the man who arrested him was Marcel Peyrouton, who last week resigned as Vichy's Ambassador to Argentina). Next day Otto Abetz, the German ruler of Occupied France, sped to Vichy in a huge Mercedes mounting two machine guns, demanded and got Laval's release. Then & there began the German pressuring for Laval's restoration which culminated last week...
Malta's present ruler is pious, beefy, frumpy Lieut. General Sir William George Shedden Dobbie, 63, whose troops call him "Old Dob Dob" and who does not drink, smoke or swear. He regards this war as another crusade against infidels, and he hates the Nazi nihilists for making him fight on Sundays. Any other day of the week he is glad to oblige. In 1918 he observed that, if anyone ever asked him what he did in World War I, he could say that he stopped it, for it was he, as a member of Field Marshal Sir Douglas...