Word: savoyism
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Soothing Reply. Nehru had made quite a day of his visit to Mussoorie. That morning, he gave a political pep talk to local Congress Party workers, then moved on to Mussoorie's Savoy Hotel to address the Travel Agents Association of India, crisply advising his audience that travel "should involve some adventure, some risk, some hardship," because the "comfortable life is rightly boring and dull...
Ferry Marquand has enough of the hair-on-the-chest quality proper to a Savoy contralto, and Susan Stone makes the scene in a smaller role. But the singing in certain other roles encroaches on the eyebrow-raising, and conductor Danny R. Moates, equal to his responsibilities for the most part, has failed from time to time to give the members of his chorus much in common...
...tired man, 20 years older than she. He lives in a dull and distant capital, on the edge of a backward and savage world. His court is oriental, his country uncivilized. Radiant Gabriella needs youth, sunshine and laughter. And then, how could a princess of Savoy, whose title goes back a thousand years, marry a man whose dynasty began in 1930?* Could she end up in the squalor of Teheran?" A Vatican source said: "In the eyes of the church, the Shah is an infidel...
Papal Message. In his capital city of Teheran, where his own life is not squalid, the Shah was silent on his Peacock Throne. But Iranian court circles pointed out that the staunchly Roman Catholic house of Savoy was used to religious difficulties. Maria Pia, Ella's sister, married Alexander of Yugoslavia, who belonged to the Greek Orthodox Church. Her Aunt Giovanna married Orthodox King Boris of Bulgaria, and the pledge to raise their children as Roman Catholics was given but not fulfilled. Yet Pope Pius XI sent Queen Giovanna a message carrying his blessings and esteem -and the message...
...raised as Moslems. At week's end the Shah's matchmaking sister, Princess Chams, who arranged his earlier marriage to Soraya, was in Geneva, ostensibly for sinus treatment but presumably ready, willing and able to conduct further negotiations between the Peacock Throne and the House of Savoy. As for tall, irenic Princess Gabriella in her villa bedroom filled with toy stuffed animals -like many a lovely princess before her. she would be expected to marry whomever her queen mother tells...