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...most obstreperously when, at the age of nine, she was compelled to change trains at a small railway station. Rushing up to the station master she stamped her foot, cried: "I am afraid, Meinheer, that you are negligent. ... I am the Princess of the Netherlands, sole heiress to the Throne. ... I am not accustomed to change trains." Oddly enough such displays of temper proved extremely popular among stolid Hollanders, who rejoiced that their Crown Princess seemed to possess all the characteristic dash and spirit of the Royal House of Orange. Wise Queen Emma curbed her daughter so adroitly that...
...lines of His Holiness' usually serene and always amiable face last week. Descending from the papal automobile for his diurnal promenade in the Vatican gardens he wrenched his right foot. After a day in his private quarters he forced himself to give his usual audiences in the throne room. The pain continued. So public, but not private, audiences have been suspended for the present. Before his election to the Papacy he was a doughty mountain climber. Age, not immuration, is responsible for his present frailty. Next May His Holiness will be 72 years old. U. S. Numbers...
...typical of his youth as a smart lawyer named F. E. Smith-were flatly contradicted by Dictator Mussolini thus: "The oft-repeated platitude that somewhere in every strong man there is the influence of a woman, is a woven fancy. That there is a feminine 'power behind the throne' is a flimsy tissue of the imagination. No woman ever has been the dominant influence in a strong man's life...
Briefly, Senator Mosconi, who assumed the portfolio of Finance, last week, is typical of the old, feudal aristocracy of Italy, whose descendants Commoner Mussolini constantly rallies to his own essentially feudal standard-a standard now ascendant over the Throne, as not a few were in feudal times...
...heir apparent was, last week, the Sovereign's cousin Alfred Aloyse, but he too will soon be dead and his estate the prey of tax gatherers. Therefore the succession to the Throne of Liechtenstein was allotted, last week, to fall upon Prince Alfred Aloyse's 18-year-old grandson, Prince Franz Joseph Marie Aloyse Alfred Charles Jean Henri Michel Georges Ignace Benoit Gerard Majella de Liechtenstein. Thus only one, not two sets of inheritance taxes, will have to be paid before young Prince Franz ascends his minute Throne...