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Serene as always, King Fuad arrived, noted the makeshift throne, diplomatically tested only the edge of its capacity. To M. Avenol, still warm from his recent labors, King Fuad hinted: "Each time Egypt has been invited to international meetings under the auspices of the League she has been happy to participate...
...League of Nations at Geneva. He caused a mild panic among the staid members of the Secretariat. Little used to entertaining pompous monarchs who travel as does Egypt's Fuad with a small army of retainers, Secretariat members thought only in the nick of time to provide a throne for the dusky, red-fezzed potentate. Acting Secretary General J. A. M. C. Avenol, flustered in the absence of his chief, suave, assured Sir Eric Drummond, madly canvassed Geneva's second-hand shops until he found a massive chair heavy with carvings and bright red plush into which...
Soon the Commoners were summoned to the House of Lords to hear the Speech from the Throne. Seated on a bench before the empty throne were five noble representatives of the King in ermine and scarlet, like end men at a minstrel show. In their middle, was the Lord Chancellor, Sir John Sankey. Perhaps 50 Peers in ordinary morning clothes sat comfortably on their benches. Crowded behind the Bar of the Lords stood the Commoners. Thus once a year do the Lords of Britain put the Commoners in their places...
Bulgaria's War-time Prime Minister, Vasil Radoslavoff, has spent the past eleven years in exile, with his son-in-law's spare bedroom at Berlin as his base. Last week Exile Radoslavoff, who fled his country when Tsar Ferdinand was forced to abdicate the Bulgarian throne in 1918, was unofficially told that he might return to Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Sobranye (Assembly) had passed the third reading of a bill pardoning those ministers who were condemned to life imprisonment by the government of Alexander Stamboulisky, spectacular peasant...
...opponents [in Bulgaria] have made all kinds of false accusations, such as that I intended to put back the Tsar Ferdinand on the throne. That was not true, because Ferdinand is always able to return to Bulgaria. He vacated the throne voluntarily and was not expelled from the country...