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Siam's eleven-year-old King, elf-faced Ananda Mahidol, last week got his first practical benefit from his kingship since his Uncle Prajadhipok abdicated last month (TIME, March 11). In the excitement of his ascension to the throne, Ananda, heretofore high in his classes in the Swiss school at Lausanne, which he has been attending, has fallen a little behind. Last week came examinations. A word from His Majesty was sufficient. Thereupon Queen Mother Songkla petitioned the Lausanne director of schools to excuse Ananda from taking the examination. The Siamese Legation in Switzerland repeated the request. Last week...
...ants in their pants and run out-you pay the freight-because the Wirephoto contracts do not hold the users jointly and severally liable. I merely suggest that the intelligent thing to do is protect your own cash drawer." Shaking his grey mane, he shouted: "Break away from the throne long enough to show you have some independence left...
...very meet, right, and our bounden duty that we should give thanks unto Thee, 0 Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, Everlasting God, for that Thou wast pleased as on this day to set Thy servant our Sovereign Lord, King George, upon the Throne of this Realm and has profited him in days of sickness and of health throughout his reign of five and twenty years...
...once plain Mr. Henry Pu Yi passed. In Tokyo all rail traffic in & out of Tokyo station was stopped for two hours; the entire railway station district was cleared. And Japan's Son-of-Heaven himself went down to greet the onetime occupant of China's Dragon Throne. Correspondents, kept back with the Tokyo populace to a distance of one block on either side of the imperial route, spitefully cabled that they could not be sure they had seen the Emperor of Manchukuo, hinted that a double might have been used to prevent his assassination...
...little: that he has a tenacious memory, is the first British King since Charles II to be a first-class practitioner of a field sport (shooting), that the British Government suppressed the fact that during the null horse reared and fell on him. Of the British institution of the Throne it says much: "A calm at the heart of the storm. The King is of no class, being above classes. . . . His duty is not to act but to be ... like Time...