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...Highness the Maharaja of Bikaner was among the first to accept as a matter of course last week that Britain would soon be at war, cabled to King George VI: "I and my subjects are ever prepared to shed our last drop of blood for His Imperial Majesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: On The Verge | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...foot wooden telescope, Galileo discovered Satellites I-IV. On a clear night they are visible with a good pair of field glasses. Of the five other faint satellites. Satellite V was discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard at the University of California's Lick Observatory in 1892, VI and VII by C. D. Perrine also at Lick in 1904-1905, and VIII by Melotte at Greenwich in 1908. Discovery of the satellites was not only a telescopic feat, but a matter of practical importance to astronomy. As far back as 1675, Ole Roemer, Danish astronomer, noting that the eclipses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Moons | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Publishers of the Harewood News are Viscount Lascelles, 15, and the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, 14, sons of George VI's sister, Princess Mary, and the Earl of Harewood. Last fortnight the News, in a special edition mimeographed for an adult garden party at Harewood House, undertook "to settle once and for all" whether the publishers' father is Earl of "Hair-wood," "airwood" or "Harwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pronunciation | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...week in quick succession: 1) Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare waived formalities, turned into a British subject the jobless longtime (1920-38) Minister of Austria to the Court of St. James's, Baron Georg Franckenstein (who in spite of his beaked nose is an Aryan); 2) King George VI called his new subject to Buckingham Palace, dubbed him Sir George Franckenstein, Knight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: New Subject | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Since Her late Majesty was a second cousin of King-Emperor George VI, to the funeral came the Duke and Duchess of Kent. There was no question of the Queen's popularity, for Bucharest filled to overflowing with Rumanians from all over the country, many arriving from great distances. As Marie of Rumania passed to her last resting place, devout thousands groveled in prayer, made the sign of the cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Stalin & Marie | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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