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One of the twelve richest men in Europe is Belgium's picturesque, choleric Emile Francqui. Like the late great Cecil Rhodes, he found his fortune and lost his temper beneath the blazing sun of Africa-Belgian Congo. Three years ago, as Finance Minister, he won world fame by '...
There is, of course, an important religious element in the present Mexican situation. The government consists of the anti-Catholic, broadly Socialist and efficiently militant forces of President Emilio Fortes Gil and General Plutarco Elias Calles?a burly, bull-necked fighter who would certainly have the sympathy of God Mexitl...
No sooner had the Utrecht story broken last week, than it was declared by Foreign Office statesmen in Brussels and Paris to have been "entirely falsified." This, however, did not satisfy Queen Wilhelmina's large, stiff-necked, smugly garbed Foreign Minister, Jonkheer Beelaerts Van Bloklund (TIME, Aug. 27), long...
Up to this time all Princesses who had become by marriage Tsaritsas of Russia had been exclusively of German origin for a century and a half. But now this precedent was shattered, and the Grand Duke (Crown Prince) Nicholas of Russia chose to wed the little Danish princess. There is...
Alexander and Maria Feodorovna became Tsar and Tsaritsa upon the assassination of his father, and reigned for 13 years. "Bull-Necked Alex" was then officially known as, "The Orthodox and Pious and Christ Loving, the Absolute Autocrat and Great Lord, Crowned and Elevated by God, Alexander Alexandrovich, Emperor and Autocrat...