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...midst of all these military and diplomatic threats and counterthreats, Jordan itself entered the last week of an election campaign. In the refugee-jammed country, anti-West parties stood a good chance to win. Nasser sympathizers already hold key army commands, and young, British-educated King Hussein's throne may be in the balance. In any event the Middle East has another crisis abuilding that may not wait for Suez to be settled first...
Huge and amiable, the former autocrat puffed up the gold-and-silver ladder to his jewel-encrusted throne, and just as the royal backside touched the gold-brocaded pillow waiting to receive it, thousands upon thousands of lights blazed up all over the city. Elephants with gilded toenails lumbered past the prince. Indian regimentals struggled bravely to keep their Scottish bagpipes skirling, while acrobats wheeled and tumbled. One by one Mysore's distinguished citizens approached the throne holding an offering of gold, and the maharaja, his diamond earrings ajangle, tapped the proffered coin to show that he accepted...
...This basic philosophy is looked at by some as unrealistic; by others as pure hypocrisy. Some critics view it as an entirely unworkable plan, but a greater number--including the various schools involved--see the Ivy League as the only possible way to ease King Football from his mighty throne without stripping him of all his possessions...
...outrage of all British colonials in Bechuanaland and to large numbers of his own subjects, who, rather than accept a white chieftainess, transferred their allegiance from Seretse to his Uncle Tshekedi. To still the clamor, Britain's Laborite Colonial Office simply plucked the young king from his throne and sentenced him (on an allowance of $4,200 a year) to exile in Britain for life. But the clamor was far from stilled. In the years that followed, while Seretse studied law and sired two children, his case was argued again and again in the tribal councils of Bechuanaland...
...power, the Labor Party, which had originally decreed his banishment, became a champion of the young chieftain's return. At Labor's prompting, Seretse and his uncle got together again and agreed to draw up documents by which each renounced all rights to the contested throne. With this accomplished, the Tory government agreed to let both return to Bechuanaland as private citizens, with the right to help rule the land of their ancestors as two members of the governing council...