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...clock Mike Kennedy, who ascended Tammany's throne last year as the choice of Franklin Roosevelt's good friend, Senator Robert F. Wagner, sat somberly alone...
...According to the A.P., Marshal Badoglio broke the news to Vittorio Emanuele that no representative government could be formed while he, the King of Italy for 43 years, remained on the throne...
...till the viceregal flag broke out over the palace dome was the public aware that Field Marshal Lord Wavell had mounted the golden throne. Within jasper-columned Durbar Hall, he had taken the three great oaths: 1) the oath of allegiance to King-Emperor George VI; 2) the oath as Governor-General of British India; 3) the oath of Viceroy representing the Crown to the autonomous Indian States. In that nine-minute ceremony, he had also attained a sumptuous $10,000,000 palace; a job paying in salary and expenses about $280,000 a year; the top appointive post...
...list showed no desire to placate anyone. It did show a realistic approach to the fact that India is an important Allied military base as well as a shaky pillar of Empire. But the same bluntness was bound to alienate many Indians before he had mounted the throne. Indians could-and did-point out that a starving India could be neither an efficient base nor a willing ally. With no real evidence as yet, they were already branding him as another imperialist whipping master. And many Britons at home, horrified at the failure of the Raj to control the famine...
...Days of the Hammer. Heaven was high, says the Chinese proverb, and the throne was far away. In the spring of 1934, Russian planes swooped down on the besiegers. Provincial soldiery suddenly swelled with reinforcements. Ma Chung-ying himself was soon in flight...