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...right or left wing," he went on, "but the probability is that it will come from the Monarchist party, which seems to be constantly growing in strength at the present moment. In Munich last summer the streets were constantly placarded with signs advocating and predicting the return of the royal house and the beginning of a war of revenge against France. It is true, on the other hand, that nothing that has happened since the armistice has so depressed the Germans as their defeat in the 'war of 1923' or the Rhine and Ruhr...
...authority on international trade and finance, a soldier, a statesman,a professor. He was given a medical education at Edinburgh University, at the London Hospital and at Freiburg, Germany. He became a Demonstrator and Assistant Professor of Anatomy at his old University; from there he went to the Royal College as Professor of Anatomy at Dublin and subsequently held the same position at McGill University, Montreal, later becoming Principal of that institution...
...Rendezvous. So flamboyant was the melodrama of this singular narrative of the downtrodden royal party of Russia that certain commentators took it to be satire...
Hitherto, it was not comme il faut (in fact it was considered "indecent") for a royal prince to marry for love. The Crown Prince, breaker of precedents, loved his Princess, but he had to battle for her with Prince Yamagata, the most formidable of the Elder Statesmen-a fact which increased his popularity with the people...
After such a spontaneously popular welcome, opposition was withdrawn to the royal marriage and the engagement was formally announced in June...