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...Prince of Wales, Britain's much-traveled "Ambassador," left England's shores to the thunder of guns, the cheers of hundreds of thousands of his father's subjects and the strains of The Girl I Left Behind Me, rendered by the Royal Marines band, on his 26,000 mile voyage to South Africa and South America (TIME, Mar. 23). At London, Premier Baldwin said good-by in a sprightly 15-minute conversation punctuated frequently by hearty laughter. Prince Henry accompanied his eldest brother to Portsmouth, but Prince George, without tonsils (TIME, Mar. 30), was not permitted by his doctors...
...Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, cousin of King George, was represented by Admiral Mark Kerr before the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors. A claim was made for royalties for the Battenberg course indicator?an ingenious and invaluable instrument to navigators, aerial or naval?invented by her late husband, Prince Louis of Battenberg (name changed by King George to Milford Haven in 1917), First Lord of the Admiralty in 1914. The claim was sympathetically heard but was thought likely to be disallowed because, at the time of the invention, naval officers were not allowed to sell inventions to the State...
...Universal Manhood Suffrage Bill was passed by huge majorities in both Houses of the Imperial Japanese Diet. The Bill will be sent to the Prince Regent for the Royal Assent and promulgated by Imperial rescript which makes it the law of the land. Plans were being laid to declare Apr. 28 a national holiday in commemoration of the passage of the measure...
...Naples, Italy, arrived the ex-Dowager Queen Sophia of Greece, sister of the ex-Kaiser, wife of the late ex-King Constantine of Greece. She had arrived to exhume her husband's body, take it to Florence, rebury it in the tomb of the Hellenic royal family...
...Rome, a number of royal princes and princesses boarded the train. Officials of the Hellenic Republic were conspicuous by their absence. Finally, at Florence, after an Orthodox Church service, the body was recommitted to the ground until such time as the Government at Athens permits it to be buried there...