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...Three Cows. A huge crystal chandelier glittered above the pearl-grey top hats of diplomats, the snow-white Gandhi caps of Congressmen, and the flaming turbans and fezzes of princes in the marble rotunda. On the great throne where viceroys once sat, perched birdlike Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, retiring Governor General of the Dominion. Beside him on a smaller throne was the President-elect, in black achkan (coat) and tight white churidar (trousers). Prasad's timid wife Rajbanshi sat near by, looking bewildered and frightened...
...urges all parties to unite with him for restoration of the Byzantine Empire, "of course without quarreling with the Turks, who are good, sweet fellows." Fiery, mustached Emperor Michael is vague about most of his program, but specific on one point: if elected, he wants a carved walnut throne. When he heard that part of the job of the U.N.'s Balkan Committee was to help Greeks, Michael got right in with his own request: ten cars, two typewriters, two radios, loudspeakers and money. In the meantime, he has been stopping Salonika traffic, campaigning from a table...
...Anything Might Happen." As rumors grew that Francisco Franco was considering restoration of the Spanish monarchy, Don Jaime let it be known that he was ready to reconsider his renunciation of the throne and "take up his responsibilities if called upon." Apart from the minor difficulty that few Spaniards were particularly interested in having Don Jaime as their king, there was another hurdle: the duchess was a commoner. To overcome this obstacle, the duchess made a beautiful decision...
...play shows a middle-aged Julius Caesar championing a young Cleopatra against her brother in a squabble over the Egyptian throne, and barely winning out by force of arms. But what most playwrights would turn into gaudy love feasts and drum & trumpet heroics is a chance for Shaw to explore the ancient world, contrast youth with age, servant with master, Egypt with Rome, Caesar with Caesarism...
...National Unity." The fate of Great Novgorod, whose crime was the independence and rebelliousness of its inhabitants, belongs in the long and bloody list of massacres perpetrated by tyrants in the name of "national unity." When Ivan the Terrible came to the throne in 1547, Russia was still a collection of semi-independent states; when he died 37 years later, in the midst of a quiet game of chess, the central authority of the Czar in Moscow was recognized even by those whose powers of recognition had been burnt from their eye-sockets with red-hot irons...