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M
ONARCHS in exile were scarce before the World War.
Hospitable and
secure
England had given shelter to the only two: Napoleon
land.
By
landlord of a modern flat build- ing in Rome is a fall which
Kees Van Hoek bronzed bull-necked Amanullah
Balkan Poker-Player
businessman,
son,
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without
appearing
survived much the worse for it.
Afghanistan, least civilized of all the independent States of
the world, could not stand ita King's Western injections and turned him out, hardly back from an amazing European gala tour. The few literate brigand chiefs, who seemed to have been left behind by oversight, had grown jealous.
Now he and his Queen Soy- BS. A rayaj still beautiful Princess from the Arabian Nights, although mother of five! children-look after their pro-
Shadow Of Caliphs
In 1924 no lesser personage
than the Sultan of Turkey, as Caliph of 250,000,000 Monam- medans the “Shadow of God on Earth" had to go into exile.
Kemal Ataturk gave him 500 Bix francs and
hours to
THE VERY IDEA“
Searching For Uses For Water
By Eddie "Hydrophobla
FREE water may soon
be abolished.
We refuse to be excited at the prospect.
What is water?
It flows under bridges, washes necks, makes a strange beverage known as tea, has its use for shaving purposes, etceträ, etcetera, etcetera.
Millions of germs lurk in water.
Before it can become safo for drinking purposes it must be boiled, filtered, chlorinated, and bacteriologically tested.
After all this it should be poured down the sink, and the whisky should be taken with just a tiny dneh of soda or neat,
We were three months old! when we first objected to water. However, we recall with some grim satisfaction that we had our revenge on the parson.
We must be fair to water, however. Our projudice against it is not altogether cock-eyed. For instance, we recognise that water is vitally necessary to the British Naty, which would not be able to invoke the Escalator Clause if it had no water to sail upon.
Fish also seem to thrive in lit, and it is a handy part of the world to be seasick in if you are travelling across it.
Oxford have oven been known to win a Boat Race on water. We are not very keen on this subject.
Terror Test for these British People
A
men
FEARLESS band of and young women plunge at 65 miles an hour down the steep Swiss.... mountain slopes behind Engelberg in the World Ski-racing Cham- pionships..
The manifesto issued by the III, who with the Empress sian waiter, Zoubkoff, a sensa- Kuomintang Congress, following Eugenie sought peace and tion for the press such as no He henzollern had over before sup- old
plied. its highly important and possi- forgetfulness in the
of Chislehurst, bly fateful sessions, shows that seclusion
Travelling Alfonso the Chinese leaders are now after the disastrous ending
the Franco-Prussian From Vienna headquarters fully aware of the fact that they of can count upon no open and War; and Manoel of Portu- Alfonso, once His Most Catholie of Spain, travels official "outside" assistance, ex-gal, who with his mother Majesty cept that which comes in the the Dowager Queen Amelie, through Europe with all the
alertness of a form of loans or armaments for escaped in the nick of time along trails 6.0 crazy. which the Chinese Government from the fury of a fierce tourist's. will be expected to pay. They are Lisbon revolution to end In the new permanent re- perty. They enjoy a goodly facing up to this situation with his days at quiet Twicken- sidence which Queen Victoria pension too, for I Duce consi- a fine show of independence and ham on the Thames. Eugenie has just furnished in ders it handy to have a present the proper determination. Their But after Armageddon came the Royal Borough of Kensing- able Asiatic Potentate, still in
to hitch China's for-the crowns began to roll over the ton, his life-size portrait still his carly forties, about. tunes to Marshal Chiang Kai-streets of Europe's capitals and occupies the place of honour, shek's star of destiny is its reverberations were felt unto though they only met once in moving piece of defrance to their far lands and distant dynasties. recent years, keeping vigil at the beside of their daughter Princess powerful enemy. Abandoned The Squire Of Doorn Torlonia in Rome. by the League of Nations, un-
The most spectacular of the She forgave her first-born his able to count upon the active world's monarchs, Kaiser Wil- morganatic marriage with a of the helm II, opened the galaxy, fly- Cuban beauty, his divorce and signatories of treaties which ing, one day before the Armis- already foundered remarriage leave Constantinople. The time
Never were women were to have safeguarded China tice, from Spa General Head- with a dentist's daughter, his just sufficed to book seats оп the Orient Express and from abuse by stronger neigh-quarters to nearby neutral Hol- half-hearted attempts at motor
salesmanship and
his more the
for
subjected to such a stiff money
fares 1s bours, the leaders have done!
Though the octogenarian has successful career as a night-club far as Montreux. There a Swiss sports test as that which what self-respect demanded;
now given up wood-cutting as habitue. Another Don hotelkeeper worried for some Miss Birnie Duthie, Miss they have announced their de- too strenuous an exercise, he still Gonzalez, died from the results months about the bill of his Im-Eileen de Cosson, Miss | termination to continue the tends his rose-gardens and goes of a motoring accident in Ceylon. perial Majesty and his sixteen Helen Blane, and Miss
struggle no matter what the for brisk walks with the children Don Jaime, the healthiest and children, not to mention his four cost. For by elevating Chiang of his second wife, the German most intelligent of the Spanish wives and his elaborate suite. Philippa Harrison faced
Realising royal children-once a midship- Since his son Jah married the recently Kai-shek to the position of dic-Princess Hermine.
of Great Britain. tator they have shown that they that Hitler does not dream of man in the British Navy-is the daughter, of the Nizam
recalling him, he has, mentally only hope for the restoration of Hyderabad, Abdul Medjid thrives approve of his doctrine of
still very alert, settled down at the ancient throne of Aragon in peace and security at Cimiez, resistance, his uncomprising Doorn to his old hobby of and Castille and of Franco, who where, immaculately dressed decision to meet force with Egyptology and his own regular recently declared the Prince's from his red fez to his white force and to exact from Japan Sunday sermon.
life too valuable for Spain's fu- spats, he writes poetry and His eldest grandson lost the ture to be risked in fighting on plays the violin. as great a price as possible for every yard of Chinese soil seized imperial favour by marrying the Nationalist front,
Dorothy de Salvinti, a beautiful
Small and elegant, ex-King by the invading armies.
atudent from his Bonner Uni-
As adept at wire-pulling but Prajadhipok of Siam lives near
Water. There is no longer any ques-versity and since happy-go-lucky
England's tion about the unity of China, Prince Auwi joined the Nazi leas in the public eye, Zita, al- Virginia What the princes and govern- movement the doors of the though only two years Empress beauty spot. He refused to ments of past centuries failed paternal home in Holland have of Austria and Queen of Hun- come back to Bangkok, so mo- But it was gary, has for the last 20 years dernised that it would no longer un- to accomplish, an invasion and been closed to him.
concentrating all her recognise the sovereign's the ability of one man have burder for the dignified Impera- been
tor Rex to see his only sister talenta and her extensive inter- restricted rights of life combined to achieve. Marshal married-although subsequent- national family ramifications on death over all his subjects.
His 12-year-old nephew Chiang is the individual about ly divorced-to a derelict Rug- regaining either of these Crowns
for her eldest son Otto.
Ananda Mahidol, born at Heldel- which this union centres. He
When the Emperor Karled berg and now being educated at is the symbol of the new nation, man when the Marshal's picture in exile in Madeira he left her a Swiss boarding school, has al- personifying the ambition, self-is flashed on the screen of with eight children which she ready been proclaimed Defender discipline and integrity which theatre and ecstatically applauds brought up in the village of of the Buddist Faith and con- are the attributes of any suc- cach little gesture of this leader; Lequieto, moving, when Spanish stitutional King of ancient Siam. when children in the darkened skies became overcast, to the Fresh in our memory is the cessful people. He is such
as Sun Yat-sen, and his pit take up the song of soldiere safety of the Flemish Castle of tragic figure of sad-looking dark-cloaked Haile Selassie, un- name alone will be sufficient to of the Republic in their pathetic treble voices the troops
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Dark and handsome Otto pass-til the Italian invasion King of rally the Chinese people in the march across the screen; when defence of desperate causes in old and sworn enemies of the ed the course of Louvain Uni- Kings and Emperor of Ethiopia, distinction. So After six months of war he fled years to come. Foreign na-new "dictator" take up arms in versity tionals are inclined to doubt the his defence, these are surely con- far he has only been offered the by train, taking his pet dog and truth of the claim that China vincing evidence of the existence freedom of numerous Austrian £30,000 in cash, with which he of a national spirit which even cities. He knows that his only had enormons debts to pay in
man
A
Hapsburg Speculation
Steenockarzeel.
with
Exotic Refugees
and
has become unified, and perhaps defcat cannot aubdua. And chance lies in a growing convic- Europe munitions and the up- with some justice argue that it finally there is the spectacle of tion among Little Entente poli- keep of his legations in London, is the pressure from without the Kuomintang thrusting upon ticians that a Hapsburg in Paris and Geneva. Though liv at Bath-his rather than any force from the Marshal greater power than Vienna is the lesser of two evils, ing modeatly within which has brought about any Government of the republic of which the Anschluss with daughter a nurse in a London Duke of Harrar, at a prepara- this cohesion. Let that pass over possessed. They know the Germany would undoubtedly be hospital and his young son, the tory school in the South of Eng- for the time-being. It is enough consequences; for if they follow the worst.
landho has had already to sell his jewels and plate at a London auction.
Marshal Chiang there will be no
that there is cohesion. When surrender. That is why they. From King To Landlord An audience of Hongkong have put their trust in him, no From royal guest at Buck
Ingham Palace to bourgeois Chinese fumpa to its feat as one doubt.
on behalf of
All the winter they, and oight other girls, trained for the events. Two of the most brilliant of eight were "crock.. ed"-Miss Isobel Roc, who. won the trials at Murren and subacquently broke her ankle, and Miss Helen Palmer-Tom- kinson, who has broken a leg. Such accidents are com- mon in crack ski-ing, and are taken as a matter of course. Too Old at 23
ISS Helen Blane, for": MISS
instance, who hns "mado" the Brilish, team, had to have a serious operation on her knee after a crash In 1930. Yet: the next year, undeterred, she was back in the British side, and put up the pluckiest performance.
T. Cholmondeley-Topper, the. British second string in the men's events this year, is another case. in point. Last year he crashed heavily, receiving concussion and breaking his nose. Yet only Inst month he beat the record of the Swiss International, Will Steur.. over the famous "Schlligraf" run at Murron.
Peter Lunn, the greatest ski-er- England has ever had considera himself a veteran at the age of 23;, and has retired from racing.
Miss Evie Pluching, who is tie samo age, and is our best women:, ski-er also, confesses that the mental and physical strain of in- Lernational racing too great and she, Ilkewise, has 1036 she was world
Miss Elicen de Cosson, the Brat string of the British Womek, "re cently did the fortest time in the Ladies Ski Club Championataipe
at Murreti
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