Foreign News: Visiting Kings

Impeccably groomed journalists on the platform of Liverpool Street Station were mistaken for a reception committee of impeccably groomed British statesmen last week by arriving King Christian X of Denmark. After shaking hands with them, His Majesty noticed their notebooks and pencils, remarked easily, "I see you are writers. I'll give you no trouble and will be a good boy."

England's other visiting King, Leopold

III of the Belgians, continued to give Fleet Street last week the trouble of guessing why he was in London on his third visit this year (TIME, Dec. 13...

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