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...particularly strong personality, Canadians quote Tennyson and say that he may occasionally "shape the whisper of the throne...
After the conquest of Norway, Ger many planned to sweep the whole dynasty of King Haakon from the throne. But the King and Crown Prince escaped to Britain, the Crown Princess and the royal grand children to Sweden. Norway's quisling, Major Vidkun Quisling, demanded that King Haakon renounce the crown for him self and his descendants. Haakon politely refused. Germany intrigued to get Crown Prince Olav to replace his father on the throne, but Olav would have none of it. Then Crown Princess Martha in Sweden was offered a regency in the name of her son, Prince Harald...
...France's new Government did to appease the conquerors, dark days lay ahead. A separatist movement appeared in Brittany, perhaps to be followed by other such movements by the Catalans, Basques, Corsicans, what not. In Switzerland the Duc de Guise, Bourbon pretender, was scheming to get the French Throne for his son, the Comte de Paris. Both Italy and Germany warned that the ''political bill of reckoning" had not yet been paid, would be dictated by "historic realism." France, said the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, "will not find her place on an equal basis with the Reich...
...national amateur heavyweight champion, 22-year-old Warren Barbour. Boxer Barbour, son of a wealthy thread manufacturer and known to his many admirers as "The Millionaire Kid," was not averse, but his parents dissuaded him from turning professional. Last year, with another and more popular Negro champion on the throne, Senator Barbour thought it time to introduce his bill, got his friend Jack Dempsey to tell a Congressional committee that the movie ban was an archaic handicap to the manly sport. Republican Barbour is now training for a fast go with Democrat James Cromwell (an amateur boxer who once went...
...Madrid, where he conferred with Sir Samuel and with Franco. Safe in the U. S., the Chicago Daily News's Hungarian-born Correspondent M. W. Fodor wrote a sensational story of which the two main points were: 1)Germany wants to put the Duke back on the throne as its puppet (which has been journalists' gossip for months); 2) Edward's little Duchess was once the good friend of Joachim von Ribbentrop (which has been common knowledge for years). All in all, the peace story was a good yarn, and in Rome and Berlin, as well...