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...Cairo last week an ambitious Egyptian general seized the royal palace and gave His Majesty King Farouk exactly six hours to abdicate his throne and clear out of Egypt for good. A thousand miles away, in poverty-stricken Iran, Communists and Nationalist mobs forced the Shah of Shahs to cringe in his lovely palace and give over to Mohammed Mossadegh absolute power over the Iranian army. "Mossy," as he is known in the English-speaking press, got his old job back as Premier (see below...
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Farouk's ex-brother-in-law,* is a nice liberal young man, who likes to call himself a "working monarch." He owes his throne to his father. Reza Shah Pahlevi, a mighty man who rose from sergeant to emperor. (The British confirmed Reza's kingship after World War I, but broke him in World War II.) The young Shah's sensitivity over his family's short claim to royal legitimacy helps render him indecisive...
When Michael von Faulhaber became Archbishop of Munich in 1917, King Ludwig III still sat on his shadow-throne in Bavaria and the old order of Europe, if crumbling, was not yet gone. Archbishop Faulhaber reached his new archdiocese from the trenches of Germany's Western Front: he had gone to war as a chaplain in 1914, although he was already 45, a bishop and a celebrated Biblical scholar. He was the first German prelate to win the Iron Cross...
Citation: "From the bassinet in her mother's dressing room in the theater, to the throne of long-reigning queen of the Drew-Barrymore dynasty, her tour of the hearts of the theater-loving public has been an uninterrupted processional of glory in crescendo...
...Lake District, walked the streets of London with tireless energy. Outside Buckingham Palace, they stood with cameras at the ready, as if waiting for the Queen to wave to them from the windows. They toured the Tower, St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey ("Is this really the coronation throne? Kinda beat up, isn't it?"), carefully watched out for cars on the "wrong side" of the street, crowded into Dirty Dick's Fleet Street pub and the Prospect of Whitby on the Thames. Wherever Americans went sightseeing, they saw that reassuring sight-other Americans...