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...best wife and the best horse in the world, he did not want to succeed his father. Thereupon the British Army of Occupation skipped to the youngest of Ismail's twelve children, chose Fuad to be sultan and in 1922 made him King of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, the Sudan, Kordofan and Darfur. Thus the great-great-grandson of an Albanian tobacco peddler, the great Mohammed Ali, became the first sovereign in Egypt since Cleopatra died of an asp bite...
Senator Tydings' bill to free Puerto Rico was modeled on his Philippine Independence Bill. It provides that on Nov. 2, 1937, Puerto Ricans shall be invited to vote on the question: "Shall the people of Puerto Rico be sovereign and independent?" If a majority vote "Yes" a convention is to be called within seven months to draw up a Constitution to be submitted, within one year, to the President of the U. S. Then a commonwealth would be set up for four years and immediately appropriations of U. S. money for the islands, with certain minor reservations, would cease...
...refused him a French commission. Eugene at 20 helped the Austrians turn back one of the last Turkish offensives in Europe and remained to become, at 34, Austrian Imperial Field Marshal. Allied with Britain's Marlborough and with the Germans, Eugene thoroughly spanked the armies of his onetime sovereign on such famed fields as Oudenarde and Malplaquet. Thus his career can be counted, according to necessity, for France, against France, against the Turks, for the Austrians or for the Germans...
...When Hitler offered one to General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm von Ludendorff, that eccentric old soldier refused it on the ground that such an honor was possible only in wartime and from the hand of a Sovereign. Germany's only other surviving field marshals are General August von Mackensen, Duke Albrecht of Württemberg and Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria...
Died. King Fuad I of Egypt, 68, ninth sovereign of his dynasty; after long illness complicated by stomatitis and gangrene; in Cairo. Fat, scholarly Ahmed Fuad, proclaimed King in 1922, was Great Britain's unwilling puppet, repeatedly threw his weight against the Wafdists, Egypt's overwhelming majority party. His only son, Prince Farouk, 16, succeeds to the throne under a regency...