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...Mussolini! The throne of his power rests upon the bodies of an oppressed people. His sword is at their throats. The vision that delights his eye is a field of the slaughtered. The picture that most entrances his soul is an ocean of blood, through which he can walk with brutal, tyrannical feet...
...cheering crowds in Bruton Street were by no means certain that they were not cheering their future sovereign. The royal babe, although she is the King's third grandchild, outranks His Majesty's two grandsons, the sons of Princess Mary. This baby will ascend the throne in the event that she outlives George V, Edward of Wales and her father-providing of course that the Prince of Wales dies without issue and that a son is not born to her father. She thus ranks, at present, third in the line of succession; and only three women in England...
Despatches reported semi-officially that the infant will be christened Mary Victoria Elizabeth-after Queen Mary, Queen Victoria and her mother. To the throngs seething in Bruton Street occurred an inescapable question: "Will she ascend the throne as Elizabeth...
...program for the first concert is as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Miserere Allegri Chorus of Bacchanties Gouned Coronation Scene, from Boris Godonov Moussorgsky Gute Nacht German Folk Song Reaper's Song Bohemian Folk Song Then round about the starry throne, from Sampson Handel
...within. A field marshal's uniform and the crown jewels of Persia served further to disguise this likeness of the Shahinshah Riza Shah Pahlavi, "the King of Kings," a onetime Russo-Persian adventurer, who recently overthrew the Kajar dynasty (TIME, Nov. 9, PERSIA) and has established himself on the throne of Persia with a civil list equivalent to $600,000 a year...