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Arrived in London, His Majesty was graciously pleased to assent to the text of his Speech from the Throne, drawn up by the Chamberlain Cabinet, and to assent to its being read to the Lords and Commons last week by the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham. This usual procedure of opening the last session of a Parliament did not necessitate the presence of Their Majesties, and Viscount Hailsham read with traditional decorum such phrases from the King's Speech as "the Queen...
...Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary," gives the most brilliant balls in Europe in the Habsburg Palace across the way from his own, but never sleeps on the premises of the King and Emperor who does not exist in fact, although by legitimate inheritance the throne belongs to Archduke or Kaiser Otto, exiled in Belgium. When experts of the Hungarian general staff advised Admiral Horthy that Ethiopia could not be conquered in a single season by the Italians, as it later was, he scoffed openly and sent them packing, has long made no secret...
...thousands of Chicagoans to see his old friend, Chicago's top Roman Catholic, George Cardinal Mundelein. Dressed in a black cassock, scarlet mantle and scarlet skullcap, the Cardinal met the President at the door of his gloomy mansion across from Lincoln Park. After a chat in the archiepiscopal throne room, he and the Cardinal sat down to a private snack of fried chicken...
After His Royal Highness and the Labor Front Leader had passed on, another German workman told correspondents, "It would be better for Germany if he had stayed on the throne." Germans seemed this week to think that Windsor must be ardently pro-German, reacted by waiting about the Kaiserhof in crowds of as many as 300, cheering and all but mobbing H.R.H. at every opportunity...
...acts as Marie's loyal escort, the author furnishes an eye-witness to scenes left out of histories. The page overhears the conversation in which Talleyrand double-crosses Napoleon with the emissaries of Russia and Austria. He and Marie uncover the plot to put Murat on the French throne; as courier to Napoleon in Spain, he sits in on long conversations between Napoleon and his intimates (partly taken from the Emperor's speeches in the Russian campaign, three years after the story's close...