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...exalted Highness may be a genius of the first water, but he sets an alarming precedent for those nations still governed by a sovereign. There is no limit to the amount of poetry a prince might have published, to be sold to all loyal subjects at a price sufficient to build a couple of battleships. For those of ample means, however, this would be a small matter; the real menace of that the royal author might command his books to be read. A revolution among the educated classes would probably follow such a decree...
Slighted Excellencies. At Rome ambassadors of every Power were caught last week upon the tender hip of precedence. Their Excellencies represent, technically, the actual person of the sovereign or president who despatched them to Rome. As such they receive the precedence which would be due U. S. President Coolidge or the King-Emperor George V. Yet last week, Premier Mussolini rushed through a Cabinet decree raising the Secretary General of the Fascist party to precedence over all ambassadors, ministers or special envoys. This is unprecedented. New Dating. Hot-headed observers saw a new breach of usage, a new aggrandizement...
...plain gold and ivory rattle, ordered by sensible Catherine the Great for her children; 4) a gold stage-coach four inches long and an inch and a half high with a 20-carat diamond* cut like a lantern swinging within; 5) the Queen Victoria paper weight, displaying that sovereign carved dumpily in jade, wearing a diamond crown...
...humor. I only hope that your correspondent is not endeavoring to enter the arena as a propagandist and bring any misunderstanding between the good feeling of this country and the good feeling of that country of which the Prince of Wales will in years to come be the reigning Sovereign...
...death of King Edward VI (only son of Henry VIII of England) was concealed for two days, and the dead sovereign youth was actually propped up for a few hours at a window of his palace. The reason: "so that the people may see that he is still alive...