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...celebration. Paris noted it, and Panama. In heedless Manhattan thousands got out of bed at 6 a.m. to hang over radios. Shanghai and Hankow had never seen so many weddings; Chinese brides deemed it lucky to be married on the day that Elizabeth, heiress to Britain's throne, became the wife of Philip Mountbatten...
That was one essential side of it-the contrast between the stability of the Throne and the confusion teeming around it. The other side was expressed in a quiet talk of great beauty and simplicity (see RELIGION). The old Archbishop of York stood before the couple and said: "Notwithstanding the splendor and national significance of this occasion, this service in all essentials is exactly the same as it would be for any cottager who might be married this afternoon in some small country church in a remote village in the dales...
Rather late, the Maharaja of Kashmir took measures to prop up his throne. He released from 15-month imprisonment the revered leader of the Kashmir Congress (India) Party, 6 ft. 4 in. tall Sheik Mohamed Abdullah, a Moslem but a follower of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru...
...front of the throne stood a young man with a slight paunch and the Soviet Order of Victory on his thickly beribboned chest; he was Michael Hohenzollern-Siegmaringen, King of Rumania. Before him sat a group of men in tail coats and white ties; they were His Majesty's ministers, and most of them were Communists. The tableau was a remarkable manifestation of Communist elasticity. Young (26) Michael reigns in royal panoply over a state actually run by the Communists...
...puppet King has tried doggedly to curb the Communists, but he is their virtual prisoner in his gilt & gingerbread palace at Sinaia. Any contact between sovereign and subjects is rigorously discouraged by the Communists. His own two aunts are little better than Russian agents. His Speech from the Throne last week, at the opening of Rumania's Parliament, was plainly dictated by Communist Petru Groza, the King's first minister and Rumania's real boss. "Friendship and cooperation in all fields with the U.S.S.R.," read Michael, "remain the very basis of Rumanian foreign policy. Rumania will seek...