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Sure are pious Austrians that an exceptionally righteous Chancellor will be found in Heaven at no great distance from Jehovah's Throne, and they know of no dead Chancellor more righteous than the late Engelbert Dollfuss who was just the right size to sit beside a cherubim. Last week the Austrian Government of deeply pious Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg cast up their eyes to Heaven and declared they were taking a momentous step which they felt would please departed Dollfuss. This step was to ask Austria's hand-picked and subservient State Council to restore over 50,000,000 schillings...
...Tsaldaris declared: "The words 'Parliamentary Republic' do not need to be changed because a Republican Government is not necessarily without a King." The Tsaldaris Government next decided that between Sept. 22 and 29, Greeks will vote in a nationwide plebiscite whether to equip their Republic with a Throne and set a King upon it or leave seedy old Alexander Zaimis alone as President of Greece...
...called the Government Party, while loyal old General John Metaxas put up Royalist Party candidates. Only nine Royalists were elected, while the Govern-ment Party won 285 seats out of 300 in the new Greek Assembly. Did that mean that George II had no chance to get back his Throne...
...however, behave better about such things. His niece, the Princess Astrid, is now Queen of the Belgians, and last week his pretty 25-year-old granddaughter, Princess Ingrid, made him feel every inch a King by marrying with much pomp & ceremony the 6-ft. 5-in. heir to the throne of Denmark, hulking, kindly 36-year-old Crown Prince Frederick...
...Diderot reproached her for her change of heart, she replied: "You philosophers are fortunate people. You write on patient paper-I, poor empress, am forced to write upon the ticklish skin of human beings." Darkest blot on her scutcheon was the murder of Ivan, the real heir to the throne, who had been kept in prison since his birth, at 24 (when Catherine went to visit him) had never seen a woman. Of Catherine's complicity in his murder, says Biographer Kaus, there is no scrap of proof, but she thinks Catherine may well have been...