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Another of Europe's little kings last week toppled from a theoretical throne. In Tirana, a Constituent Assembly announced the end of the 17-year-old Albanian monarchy, proclaimed a republic under leftist, authoritarian Premier Enver Hoxha. The announcement was followed by a lavish 101-gun salute and two days of public revelry...
...Throne. With this anachronism blasted, the building of a new Japan could proceed with some chance of success. When and if the Japanese revise their constitution, they will not stumble over Article III, which says that "the Emperor is sacred and inviolable." In denying his godhead, Hirohito appeared to be making a very human effort to lead the way in constitution revision...
...Germans' girls" in Norway, fearing that her head would be shaved for fraternizing with Nazis during the occupation, carried her appeal for mercy to the throne. In a letter addressed to King Haakon VII she admitted that she had been "associating with" a German soldier whom she professed to love very much. Now repentant, and suddenly mindful of the consequences, she told the King her prayer for salvation: "Dear God, suffer me not to be shaved. If you cannot prevent men from inflicting this shearing upon me, prevent my soul from being clipped." She hoped for royal understanding...
Long after Yü, but at the dawn of Chinese history, the Shangs sat on the throne of China (1766-1122 B.C.). They offered wine to their ancestral spirits and to the gods of the air, and poured liba tions to the gods of the earth. What remained, they drank - it could infuse spirit into even the dullest men. They poured the wine in bronze pots and cups which were shaped to a perfection that perhaps no metal work has equaled since...
Died. The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cosmo Gordon Lang, 81, retired (in 1942) Archbishop of Canterbury, who helped raise the wind that blew Edward VIII from his throne ; in Richmond, England...