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...article states, "few [Dutchmen) expect 6 TIME, AUGUST 21, 1944 any strong demand that the Queen give up her throne." Our information from the Dutch underground, as well as the testimony of those Netherlanders fortunate enough to escape from Holland, has brought to light no demand whatsoever...
...last week the royal grapevine was abuzz with a dramatic whisper. Royalty had a new champion-the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. From Washington came a report that Moscow had sounded out London on the subject of restoring Rumania's ex-King Carol to his throne. The Russians believed that Carol, now in Mexico with his mistress, Magda Lupescu, might be just the man to establish a Rumanian government "very friendly" to Moscow...
Officially We Know Nothing. Another Balkan monarch, Bulgaria's seven-year-old King Simeon II, may also owe his tottery throne to the Soviet Union. Said the same official: "Moscow should have informed us of an understanding with Bulgaria. It did not. So, officially, we do not know anything about it. But several indications have come to us, mainly from Ankara, pointing to the probability of the existence of a Soviet-Bulgarian understanding...
Died. Yoshimichi Hara, 76, close confidant of Japan's Emperor, president of Japan's Privy Council since 1938 ; in Japan. On the morning of his death, Hara was sent twelve bottles of wine by Hirohito-the customary gift of the throne to important public servants who are beyond recovery...
...armless, headless Venus belongs to Rome's Terme Museum. ¶ Raphael's graceful Sposalizio (Marriage of the Virgin) from Milan's Brera Gallery. Painted about 1503, the Sposalizio, an early Raphael, is one of the world's best loved pictures. ¶ The famed "Ludovisi Throne,"* 5th Century B.C. Greek bas-relief, called The Birth of Venus. This work, thought to be an altar to Aphrodite, is one of the monuments of Greek art. ¶ Giorgione's priceless small landscape The Tempest. This enigmatic allegory, one of Giorgione's greatest paintings, is from Venice...