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Doubtless there stirred in the Fifth George an acute consciousness that he owes his throne to the fact that the First George was a sturdy Protestant. He, the Elector of Hanover, achieved his legal right of succession to the British Throne under the Act of Settlement (1701), in which the British Parliament had taken care to exclude all Roman Catholic claimants. To-day is barely two centuries later than that time-when a religious issue was paramount in settling the First George upon his throne (1714). Has England changed so greatly that the Fifth George can dare to remain aloof...
...future from the very imaginations which ferreted out these outrageous appellations will have gained for themselves the immortality which was not theirs this time. Theirs will be the glory of giving to a breathless and expectant world that menace of the 1940's which will have succeeded to the throne once occupied by the Cross-Word Puzzle and the Ask Me Another book...
Speaking from the Throne, last week, His Majesty prorogued Parliament until February 7. His speech, of course, had been prepared by the Cabinet of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and one sentence was especially significant: "My Government has no intention of embarking on an increase in their naval building program." (See FRANCE and GERMANY...
...object of the prayer was, however, not in Lequeitio but at Luxembourg, capital city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (between Belgium and Germany). He is the Archduke Otto of Hapsburg, 15, eldest son of exiled Empress Zita, and sole legitimate heir to the vacant throne of Hungary. He was spending Christmas and New Year's at the Grand Ducal court of Princess Charlotte and Prince-Consort Felix of Luxembourg. Seemingly a successful prayer is the only force which might soon soften the firm resolve of the Allied Powers not to permit the loyal people of Hungary to substitute...
Immediately after the trial the Government promulgated a law, passed by both houses of Parliament, increasing the penalties for those attempting to overthrow the throne or government or in any way attempting to interfere with the constitutional rights of succession...