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...rumor spread wildfirewise through Rumania last week that King Ferdinand lay dead in his palace, but that the fact would be concealed until after the return of Queen Marie to Bucharest. From every major Capital, Rumanian diplomats protested indignantly that their Sovereign was alive.* Meanwhile the Rumanian Court Chamberlain, General Angelesco, sped to meet Queen Marie on her arrival at Cherbourg...
...Free State coins from which the Irish designers had omitted the head of the King Emperor George V. which appears on all British and Dominion currency. The British mint authorities, suave, intimated that it might be difficult to circulate the coins among Empire citizens accustomed to accepting only the sovereign's face at face value. Irish Free State Finance Minister Ernest Blythe, brusque, intimated that he might offer the U. S. mint the job of striking 100% Irish coins. Arlington Street is one of the shortest and most august in London's West End. Every house...
...everyone knows, the temporal power of the Tenno (King of Heaven: Emperor) was eclipsed by that of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") from the Seventh Century until the Nineteenth. It was, in fact, the great Emperor Meiji, father of the present sovereign, who overthrew the last Shogun of Japan, Keiki, in 1868, and restored the imperial dynasty...
...exists and operates today would be sufficient to protect an independent Philippine nation from external aggression dictated by the biologic urge of self-preservation. National necessity and economic imperatives have proved the impotence of the diplomatists' declarations that their nations will respect political independence and territorial integrity. The sovereign independence of the defunct kingdom of Korea was guaranteed in the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902, and yet in 1905 an amendment to this alliance gave Japan imperialistic rights in Korea, and shortly after, the political independence of Korea was a thing of the past. Such would be the case with...
...Earl, of whom it has been said that he does not know a vacuum tube from a tuning condenser, once served during three years (1922-25) as Captain of His Majesty's Gentlemen-at-Arms, the theoretical guardians of the Sovereign's person. As the onetime (1922-24, and 1925) Conservative whip in the House of Lords and present Under Secretary for Dominion Affairs he is thought to have deserved well of his party the ?5,000 ($25,000) per annum sinecure of Britain's broadcasting tsar...