Word: yohannes
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Talleyrand-Perigord, having become sensitive, no doubt, to the weight of his increasing years and the accumulations of his unpaid estate taxes, offered for sale his entire holdings to the highest bidder; and now comes the news that the good citizens of Liechtenstein, upon the death of Prince Yohann, which is hourly expected, will give up their autonomy and amalgamate with Switzerland. Somehow the course of empire must be stayed. Whatever other rulers do the house of Monaco must realize that, although personally it may care nothing for freedom, it has a magnificent foreign reputation which must at all costs...
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