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Last week The Razor spoke more sharply. To the League for Support of the Throne, Tojo reported that Aleutian occupations had "greatly strengthened Japan's position." "Japan," he said, "is determined to destroy the United States and Britain...
...ordered the creation of a new Cortes to help him manage hungry, impoverished Spain. His announcement, ostensibly timed to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Spanish civil war's beginning, coincided with Berlin reports that 29-year-old, non-hemophilic Don Juan of Bourbon would soon ascend the throne abdicated by his father, the late King Alfonso XIII. Taken together, the two developments led to one conclusion: Franco needed a whipping boy to share the onus of governing his hate-ridden people...
Paunchy, hook-nosed Léon Daudet spent most of his life in a seriocomic clamor for the return of the House of Bourbon-Orleans to the throne of France. His prose style was a far cry from the gentle whimsy which brought fame to his father, Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon, Lettres de Mon Moulin, etc.). Léon Daudet's editorials in L'Action were slapstick smacks in which he called his enemies female camels, unfecund sows, burst dogs, humpbacked cats, circumcised hermaphrodites. In a courtroom squabble Daudet once screamed "liar" at an opponent so long...
Born. To the Duchess of Kent, 35, formerly Princess Marina of Greece: her third child, second son; at Coppins, Iver, Buckinghamshire, England. Weight: 7 Ib. 4 oz. The infant (not yet named) is sixth in the line of direct succession to England's throne...
...pepperpot politics of pre-World War II Greece, he had spent twelve years in more or less bored exile in Bucharest and London—a small-scale royal life of fast cars, lovely ladies, Mayfair clubs and divorce. In 1935 he was taken back to his throne in Athens. Five years later war rolled down his rocky peninsula. George stayed with his people to the end, fled only at the last moment...