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...product of German governesses, Potsdam Military Academy and the British Court, he sincerely tries to do the "right thing," once remarked sadly: "There are no gentlemen in Greece with whom I could make friends." During his years in exile he apparently felt quite at home in the limbo of throneless royalty, where frayed memories of grandeur are brushed and brushed again like aging cutaways. He dresses well-perhaps a little too well: he was once mistaken for a headwaiter in a London restaurant. He has shot tigers in Nepal, tried his hand at writing movie scenarios, was once offered...
...abhors more than blood), the Mahatma has of late become one of Britain's stanchest friends. But he was on a spot, for if he came out flatly for war support, his smart Leftist opponents would seize the opportunity of a lifetime and probably dethrone him as the throneless leader of India's millions...
...Michael Joseph announced that the Emperor had been "compelled" to forego publication on orders of his "political advisers." London wiseacres nodded significantly; it would be a great embarrassment to the Government to find public opinion being whipped up for an Emperor who might at any moment be declared officially throneless...
...platform in Kandahar's largest square stood throneless King Amanullah and a small ironbound box. Seizing the box firmly, plump Amanullah struggled with the iron hasp. Loudly he grunted, stoutly he tugged. So entertaining was the fat man's performance that though he sweated and wrestled on the platform for two full hours, the entire audience remained. Finally when his most vigorous contortions and loudest grunts began to pall, Amanullah paused, cried aloud to Mohammed for assistance. A final tug, and the box flew open. Perspiring Amanullah held high Mohammed's sacred cloak. Convinced, the Afghan audience...
...comic behind these grandiloquent phrases was that the "Tsar of All the Russias," known as "Cyrille Égalité'' (TIME, Nov. 17), is recognized by only a handful of Grand Dukes. Last September, he took the singularly inconsequental step of proclaiming himself Tsar, as if Tsar, crownless and throneless, had any significance...