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Entente Cordiale (Max Glass) was probably intended as French propaganda for home consumption on the present Anglo-French alliance. In it royally whiskered King Edward VII (Victor Francen) faces a crisis in affairs with France, a leisurely episode which leaves the general impression that European crises were comparatively homey affairs 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...about the middle of Queen Victoria's reign, any member could secure a secret session by calling to the Speaker, "I spy strangers!" But after this cry had ejected the German Ambassador and the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, the procedure was modified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fight to the Finish? | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Died. Henry H. Colpus, 76, who claimed to be the firstborn (illegitimate) son of King Edward VII of England; in St. Petersburg,. Fla. His story: "My mother ... a young widow ... on her way to the Ascot races . . . was passing through Windsor Park alone when she met the young Prince [of Wales] She did not go to the races at all. He took her away. . . . My mother was a Quakeress and she felt that it was a spiritual marriage. But... he could not acknowledge her as his wife because he was the Prince of Wales. She wept and he gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Only other raider to return to her base was Count Dohna-Schlodien's Moewe (Gull), a converted freighter like the Wolf and deadliest German raider (her bag was about 50 ships, including the battleship King Edward VII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terrible Tub | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Haakon VII of Norway thanked Sweden's Gustaf for calling the Stockholm parley, declared: "The cooperation and friendship of our States should be a model for the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORDIC STATES: Mighty Fortress | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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