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Last week the State Department's grey, granite-jawed Joseph C. Grew, longtime U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo, spoke up "unofficially" in favor of letting the Japanese people keep their symbolic Mikado. Said he: "The Emperor did not want war." Once the military clique surrounding the throne is defeated, the fanatical cult of Shinto "can be an asset, not a liability...
Nobody knows who wrote God Save the King, or when. It became popular in England in 1745, when its jingo second verse was apparently a direct reference to the efforts of the Stuarts to regain the British throne...
Born. To King Farouk, 23, and Queen Farida ("The Only One"), 22: their third princess, third non-heir to the throne; in Cairo...
Winston Churchill was absent when King George VI opened a new session of Parliament last week. When the King read his seventh opening address from the throne, he wore a naval uniform, sported a visored admiral's cap where his glittering crown should have been. The normal pageantry, usually a richly costumed charade suggesting Britain's history of kings and the common man's long fight for democratic self-government, was stripped to three essentials. The indispensables were: 1) the symbol of democracy; 2) the symbol of wealth; 3) the symbol of the King's safety...
...blunt words fell hard on the youthful ears of King Peter II, patiently waiting in Cairo for a chance to resume his overturned throne in Belgrade. Last month Peter had announced that his war minister. Mihailovich, had promised not to fight the Partisans again unless attacked. Peter likewise made it plain that he looked forward to a postwar revival of the triune kingdom of Yugoslavia. But liaison officers recently in Yugoslavia had reported only one possible wartime solution: separate areas for the rivals to defend. The prospects for Peter in the postwar world seemed as dim last week as those...