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Childless and divorced, George II, protege of British George V, was reported to have in mind seating beside himself on the Throne of Greece his sister Helen, the gracious royal female for whom King George & Queen Mary have most sympathy. The language in which George V invariably refers to how beauteous Helen was treated by her buck-toothed consort King Carol II of Rumania is salty with sea oaths (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934). Helen although no longer Queen of Rumania, carries officially the style "Her Majesty." The legal nature of her relation to King Carol II is so anomalous that...
...their rich and mucky fields. Last week more than 8,000 people crowded into North Judson, Ind. (pop. 1,348), some to look at the best small crops raised in their 17 neighboring counties, others to watch a willowy high school graduate, dark Evelyn Edwards, 17, modestly mount a throne on spinach, onions, celery, lettuce, cauliflower, carrots, cabbage, peas & beets to be proclaimed the first "Queen of the Muck Crop* Show...
...drably respectable Brown's Hotel on Dover Street, London, sat dapper, bemonocled George II, by the Grace of God King of the Hellenes last week. The Hellenes had voted him back onto the Greek Throne from which they drove him twelve years ago. All Greek elections are conducted with terrorist methods and the latest plebiscite was no exception. As a voter one could drop into the ballot box a blue vote for George II and please General George Kondylis, the Dictator who is bringing him back to Athens, or one could cast a red ballot for the Republic...
...making himself at home to the point of picking his teeth while standing around with Queen Mary and Scottish aristocrats (see cut p. 21). Tough, dynamic General Kondylis is a great admirer of Benito Mussolini and has thought of himself as ruling Greece with a mere fop on the Throne. George II is, however, a first cousin once removed from George V and no fool, though perfectly willing to take a dignified back seat as the flesh & blood emblem of a Constitutional Monarchy. Last week Greece's Dictator had made all arrangements for His Majesty to come home...
Unfortunately the assassin's name turned out to be Sun, but he was said to be no relative of the Nanking Government's late, sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, leader of the revolution which upset the Imperial Manchu Throne in 1911. Last week's Sun was promptly branded a "Communist." Millions of Chinese considered him a patriot, hoped pro-Japanese Premier Wang was dying, regretted that Sun had not shot also China's pro-Japanese Kingpin, the Generalissimo...