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...another have been run out of the Great Powers' colonies. Last week these sloe-eyed clients of the sloe-eyed Duce were zealously trying to recruit for him fierce Arab troops for use as mercenaries against Ethiopia. In Jerusalem, however, the Emir Abdullah of Transjordania, who keeps his throne with the aid of British bombing planes, lashed out with an interview which made prime reading in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: God Help Africa! | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...KING AND THE SEA (In which the Sea describes the King's early training in the Royal Navy before the death of his elder brother, the Duke of Clarence, put him in line for the Throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The King and the Sea | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

Certain are Zita and her advisers that Prince von Starhemberg as Regent would be another detestable throne-squatter like the one in Budapest who will not get up. There lantern-jawed, leather-necked old Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya has reigned 15 years as Regent-presumably for Otto who is indisputably the rightful Habsburg heir to Hungary's crown as well as Austria's. Admiral Horthy, who had sworn fealty upon the Holy Bible to Otto's late Father Kaiser Karl, was called upon by that deposed monarch in his last years and commanded in the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Throne-Squatters | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...secret of Albert's personality. Nephew of Leopold II, whose exploitation of the Congo brought down international censure upon Belgium and whose dissolute private life outraged his subject,. Albert had not expected to rule. The death of his moody older brother put him in line for the throne. Albert possessed many of the characteristics of his grandfather. Louis Philippe, the "Bourgeois-King'' of France, had no liking for display, became known as the worst-dressed monarch of modern times. In the early years of his reign he inaugurated colonial reforms, associated with Socialist politicians, granted universal suffrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragic King | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

Friends of Gorgeous Georgios retorted that so far as faithfulness is concerned Elizabeth is well known to be keeping a "Secretary," handsome Alexander Szanavy. Since her union with Georgios II was childless, they added, it will be just as well for His Majesty to return unencumbered to the Throne and pick a more fruitful Queen. Few days later Elizabeth and her M. Szanavy, with Carol and his Mme Lupescu, celebrated in high spirits the granting of the divorce by Rumania's Appeal Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Spitework | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

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