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...Iran, proved last week that he is not too young to understand affairs. In his first statement for the U.S. press, he made clear that as ruler of Iran, which is the switchyard of Allied-Soviet traffic, he had sense enough to know on which side his throne was buttered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Shah Speaks | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...play for power over the heirs-apparent to the Throne, she got into very hot water; one of her lovers, the Abbe Fouquet, betrayed her attempt as part of a conspiracy against the Throne. Most fantastic scene in the book is her midnight rendezvous with the swishy little Prince, she dressed in the robes of an Abbess, he in a white frock. When the Prince stops patting her cheek to offer her candy, she realizes her mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tale of Two Sisters | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Born. To the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester: their first child, a son; in a nursing home near London. The new Prince is fourth in succession to the throne. Preceding him : Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret Rose, the Duke of Gloucester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 29, 1941 | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

Last week Berlin announced that on Sept. 11 Leopold had married Marie-Lelia Baels, renouncing for any children of the marriage the right to the Belgian throne. The renunciation was largely academic. Eleven years had almost leveled the stations of the dark-eyed commoner and Bel gium's morose prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The King Takes a Wife | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Alexander Obrenovitch was succeeded on the throne by the father of Alexander II, at whose murder in the newsreel Author West peered "like an old woman reading the tea-leaves in her cup. ... I could not understand this event, no matter how often I saw this picture. I knew, of course, how and why the murder had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heaven and Earth in the Balkans | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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