Word: throne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other European nations planned to forego Armistice Day exercises this week. Italy last week celebrated her World War victory over Austria-Hungary in her own Armistice Day (Nov. 4) ceremonies. The Prince of Piedmont, heir to the throne, representing the House of Savoy, and Premier Benito Mussolini, representing the Fascist Party, saluted and knelt together before the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the foot of the huge Vittorio Emanuele II monument in Rome...
...only was Carol Hohenzollern very much alive, but after four-and-a-half years of self-exile, he was back in Bucharest and able truthfully to describe his profession to Rumania's census-takers as "mostly a king," secondarily a "farmer." The Tsar lost his throne primarily because he did not know his job. Rumania and the world have become gradually convinced that Farmer-King Carol thoroughly knows all the ins & outs of how to be a King in the Balkans...
Carol's father, Prince (later King) Ferdinand, anticipated his son's later escapades by falling in love with a pretty young poetess, Helen Vacarescu; according to one version he eloped to Venice and renounced his right to the throne. Finally persuaded by his uncle, old King Carol I, to return to Bucharest, he was then married to Princess Marie, daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria...
...bourgeois Bratianu family which had founded the modern Kingdom of Rumania by revolting against Turkish rule in 1877. Princess Marie's favorite soon became Prince Barbu Stirbey, Chamberlain of the King's Household and, more important, brother-in-law of Ion Bratianu. Prince Ferdinand came to the throne in 1914, a weakling from the start, and thereafter the real power in Rumania was lodged in the hands of the Bratianus, Prince Stirbey and Queen Marie...
...National Socialist storm troopers liked the snappy tune and text so well that they very soon adopted the entire twelve lines, almost without alterations. Only in the last two lines, the bloody-red standard had to be replaced by the swastika standard, and the proposed reversal of the "Jewish throne" was substituted for the program of protecting the Soviet Union: "Die Hakenkreuzfahne zum Himmel empor; wir stürzen den jüdischen Thron." The choice of Higher and Higher therefore was rather appropriate for the occasion, as hosts as well as guests could silently accompany the band with their...