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GREAT BRITAIN: King's Kings

That there is indeed a king of kings, though George V eschews the title, is never so apparent as when His Majesty draws to London the fabulous elect of India's native rulers, kings in their own realms. In wealth, sheer undevaluable silver, gold and gems, nearly every potentate in London last week surpassed George V. But there was the usual tendency in the English Press to outfable the fabulous. That potentate of potentates, His Highness the Maharaja of Patiala, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes, was assumed to have taken a "whole floor"...

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