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...Editor Biasi reread the April 28 issue. The word "sire" is used clearly to refer to Benito Mussolini's father, not his sovereign. Nothing is said about the marriage of Italy's King...
...least. . . . Oboe outbursts blatted blithely, beating drums too, bellowed near. Bedizened elephants and camels, caused a ringing round of cheer. This was time for fun and feasting, flout all thought of foolish fear. But a monarch of the forest flung his head in furious rage, Naught he cared for sovereign sahib, sought some foe now to engage; While the crowd in panic parted, perilled pundits sought a sage. . . . Through the throng just then there thundered, Than upon his tawny steed. Here the crowd went wild with clamor, dauntless courage met their need; Cameleer charging onward, urged his camel to high...
There was more ogling at Buckingham Palace. The biggest crowd since His Majesty's nearly fatal pneumonia (TIME, Dec. 3, 1928, et seq.) began to gather outside the tall iron fence not long after dawn. About 8 a. m. a rumor escaped mysteriously from the Palace that the Sovereign had risen from his Royal and Imperial bed. Half an hour later he and Queen Mary were said, on the high authority of a scullery maid, to be eating savory kippers. About 9 a. m. the patient, patriotic crowd learned that "the King is examining congratulatory telegrams and cablegrams from...
...Persecution." Most judges and statesmen do not regard enforcement of any law enacted by the legislature of a sovereign state as "persecution." Sir Esmond Ovey, trained in the British Foreign Office tradition of using words exactly and not loosely (of "saying what one means and meaning what one says"), concludes with the regret of a Churchman forced to give the Devil his due: "There is no religious persecution in Russia in the strict sense of the term 'persecution,' and no case has been discovered of a priest or anyone else being punished for the practice of religion...
...Wembley the Sovereign was doing his royal best to seem as interested in the Arsenal-Huddersfield soccer match for the "English Cup'' as were most of the excited spectators. When the Graf nosed down and dipped her flag in salute to royalty there were angry cries of "Get out of the light!" and a peppery person was heard to storm: "How did those Germans know the King was here! Spies! Spies every one of them...