ITALY: Kings That Pass . . .

Haile Selassie's titles used to sound absurd when he was a deposed royal out cast — Power of Trinity I, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah. . . . Last week Haile Selassie arrived in Naples, a dignified, honored potentate passing through the beaten country of his onetime conquerors. Only the day before, another king had sailed out of the same harbor, bound for voluntary exile in Egypt.* The world could read the disgrace of the House of Savoy in the titles that the abdicated Italian king had just shed from his...

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