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...fierceness and atrocious cruelty of Afghans in battle, is their characteristic instability which gave rise to the Indian proverb: "Trust a Snake before a Harlot, and a Harlot before an Afghan." Naturally assassinations of Afghan rulers have been frequent, and indeed the present King Amanullah came to the throne in 1919 only after other persons had murdered his father, Habibullah, and he himself had forcibly wrested the succession from an uncle and two elder brothers. His Majesty's principal distinction is to have forced Great Britain in 1921 to acknowledge the complete independence of Afghanistan...
...Most Catholic Majesty is thought to agree with Dictator Primo de Rivera that none of the four Spanish Infantes (sons of the King) are physically fit to inherit the Throne. For their weaknesses and infirmities His Majesty is understood to blame not his own ardent self, but Her Majesty. He is said to have tested this theory by begetting, under the rose, certain quite robust offspring...
...Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain is said to repose a strong intuitive faith in a certain obscure Catalonian doctor whom she hopes may be able to cure the haemophilia of her first born, Don Alfonso, 21, Prince of the Asturias, and heir to Alfonso XIII's throne...
Second in line for the Spanish Throne is Don Jaime, 19, a thickset, powerfully athletic youth, but congenitally deaf and mute. He now "hears" by "lip reading,"' and has been taught to make intelligible sounds; but Spaniards scarcely deem him fit to be their King...
...Manhattan last week, a festive party was held in an art gallery. An aged gentleman, hero of the occasion, was placed on a throne and at his feet a "magic carpet" was unrolled, upon which his friends came and laid presents. The old gentleman's name was then inscribed "leading all the rest" in a book of gold and he was saluted as the Abou Ben Adhem of New York City. The old gentleman was Robert Weeks de Forest, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of the Russell Sage Foundation, of the Welfare Council of New York City...