Word: states
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...role of reigning queens though splendorous is indefinite. Their duty to the State may be irreproachably discharged by mere male bearing.* Even more nebulous is the aggregate contribution to statecraft of the wives of Premiers, Ministers and Opposition leaders. They are too numerous to be counted, and too much at cross purposes to be broadly significant. But today a new class of august women loom as worthy of inspection. They are the Consorts of the world's six major Dictators. Theirs is the simplified problem and the dazzling opportunity of swaying a nation by persuading, cajoling or nagging...
...envelope contained the first reply by any Power to the proposal for a multilateral pact "renouncing war" which U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg has transmitted to Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan (TIME, April 23), in the form of a tentative treaty text. The note presented by Dr. Stresemann to Mr. Schurman declared unequivocally: ". . . The German Government ... is ready to conclude a pact in accordance with the proposal of the Government of the United States...
Since the elements of a first class Franco-British tiff were thus brewing, the foreign offices of these two "old friend" countries hastily devised a formula which would save faces all round. They proposed, unofficially, to the U. S. State Department that an international conference of jurists be called to draft the final Peace Pact text. To this proposal Secretary Kellogg returned an unofficial but emphatic "No!" Thus he shrewdly sought to force the Allied Powers to declare before public opinion whether or not they are ready to "renounce...
...Nicholas the Last. The visiting potentate was His Majesty, King Amanullah of Afghanistan, styled by his Moslem subjects, "The Peace of God." Accompanied by his Queen, Thuraya, "The Starry One," he is now completing a tour of the Occident (TIME, Jan. 23 et seq.) which has taken him on state visits to Rome, Paris, Berlin, London and several smaller Capitals. Last week the royal party, including Crown Prince Rhamatullah Khan and highest dignitaries of the Afghan State plunged from the Polish border into Russia aboard a new and sumptuous Soviet special train of 14 salon cars. The plunge was momentous...
...hate and despise "kings" and "emperors," His Majesty was ambiguously referred to in the press, by order of the Soviet censor, as a "Padisha." Curiously enough, however, the verbal use of "Majesty" was not barred, because research had established that the late Nikolai Lenin, founder of the Soviet State, whose every act and word has become a sanctified example, once addressed to the "Padisha of Afghanistan" a letter which began, "Your Majesty...