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...from his Deputy's seat to propose the candidacy of his old pupil. A member of the Royal Family should be elected, he urged, but not a woman. "Have you forgotten," he cried, "that the Constitution restricts membership in the Regency Council as well as occupancy of the Throne to males...
...young medical interne at the American Mission Hospital. No ordinary student he, but a superlatively intelligent one, for he came from a superlatively intelligent house and was none other than Somdet Chao Fa (Prince) Mahidol Adulyadej, brother of His Majesty the King of Siam, heir presumptive to the throne of Siam, Harvard graduate, onetime M. I. T. student...
Despite the death of the heir presumptive and the fact that the present King Prajadhipok is without a son as was his older brother King Rama VI, the Siamese throne will not lack for a successor. The late benevolent and fruitful King Rama V of Siam, father of these three, stocked Siam with royalty to come. He is generally credited with 370 children: 236 girls, 134 boys. Of these, ten beside the present King and the Prince who died last week are in succession to the throne...
...scurried from a side door across a sanded driveway to a temporary booth where reporters waited. Excited watchers whispered to each other that it had come. Another child was born to the Empress Nagako. Would it be a boy? Would there finally be a direct heir to the throne of Japan? On the roof of the Tokyo fire house the siren hooted mournfully, rose to a high electric scream. Tokyo waited breathless. Then came another hoot, longer, more mournful. Sadly Tokyo realized that the Empress Nagako had borne another girl, her third.* Emperor Hirohito still lacked a son. The heir...
Alighting at the grim, medieval Binnenkof, the Queen paced imposingly to her simple throne in The Hall of Knights. In the peace and dignity of the occasion it seemed bizarre that here, in this very building, a little over a month ago, the leading statesmen of Europe staged that famed and furious diplomatic quarrel, The Hague Reparations ("Sponge cake") Conference (TIME, Aug. 5 to Sept. 9). Queen Wilhelmina rose and began in her gracious contralto to roll the broad Dutch vowels of her Speech from the Throne...