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Pope Pius XII last week discharged a Christian duty apropos of Christmas. In Vatican City courtiers close to the Apostolic Throne remarked sadly that there has been fighting on the last six Christmas Days - in Ethiopia, Spain and Europe, not to mention the Far East.* But the Pope did not send a circular telegram to Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill and other heads of warring States. He issued a motu proprio or letter of instruction to Roman Catholic Bishops...
Robust young King Farouk was getting accustomed last week to disasters in his Government. Last time His Majesty opened Parliament he had just cocked an ear to Premier Hassan Sabry Pasha, who was reading the Speech from the Throne, when the Premier dropped dead (TIME, Nov. 25). Last week King Farouk commanded Minister of War Saleh Younes Pasha to attend his royal person during ceremonies inaugurating a new water system at Fayyúm. With a brisk step the Minister entered the King's train at Cairo. Just as it was about to pull out he collapsed. Jabbering with...
Slick little Harry Pilcer, the Fred Astaire of 30 years ago, was only one of the devotees of slim, baby-eyed Parisian Dancer Gaby Deslys, who, according to legend, helped King Manoel II of Portugal lose his throne. When Gaby died, Harry Pilcer became executor for her $2,000,000 estate. Back to his native U. S. last week, banished by the Nazis from the 21-room Paris apartment of his late, fabled dancing partner (which he had kept as a shrine after her death in 1920), came aging Harry Pilcer...
...King, with the Queen's hand in his, led her to the throne, and, sitting on the right hand of the throne, not putting on his crown, he intoned: "My Lords, pray be seated." The simplicity was no mere affectation of wartime. It was symptomatic of the most crucial week Britain has experienced yet, with the Luftwaffe smashing harder than ever at the islands, with the Empire fully and desperately engaged from Nova Scotia to the Nile. Indeed, Britain's plight was so grave that while in the U. S. dozens of agents and agencies worked for more...
...King was serious-and not merely with the habitual gravity of a man with a speech impediment-as he laboriously read a four-minute Speech from the Throne instructing the legislators...