Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wellpeeled eye on her relatives, her subjects and the empire, making sure that no one flagged his duty. Her rigidly towering silhouette in the last three decades has become a symbol of British royalty as familiar to newspaper readers the world over as France's Eiffel Tower. Last week in Her Majesty Queen Mary (Sampson Low, London; 125. 6d.), Press Association's Buckingham Palace Correspondent Louis Wulff provided a semi-official but nonetheless intimate glimpse of Mary during her years as Queen Mother. It reveals a Victorian as stern as she is self-disciplined, a queen who takes...
King Leopold III of the Belgians and his beautiful wife were happily packing their bags last week in their lakeside villa at Pregny, Switzerland, where they have been whiling away their long exile. They were in hopeful spirits. General Emile Bethouart, French High Commissioner in Austria, had invited them for a week of hunting in the Tyrol. After that, there was a chance that they might go on to Brussels. A decision on the King's future was finally at hand...
Leopold had just received a visit from Belgian Premier Gaston Eyskens. Together they had worked out an important political agreement. Eyskens would ask Parliament this week to hold a "popular consultation" on whether or not the King should return. If Leopold received less than 55% of the referendum votes, he would abdicate. He did not say what he would do if he got more than 55%. But it was plain that he would need a majority well over 55% before Parliament would actually agree to his return...
When he reigned, Leopold had a reputation for disregarding his ministers' counsel. But at week's end he canceled his hunting junket, instead took his princess to Paris for an "incognito" holiday...
When France is in the throes of forming a new government, the spectacle is undignified, sometimes dangerous and a severe physical tax on the men involved at the core of it. For three days 54-year-old René Mayer, last week's unsuccessful premier-designate, did not eat a decent meal. From morning until late at night he conferred hectically with party leaders. At intervals he replenished his energies with crackers and chocolate bars from a desk drawer...