VANITYWhat remains of the 20 kingdoms on the continent, what happened to the kings and kings' representatives whoattended King Edward VII's funeral? How swiftly time ran out for most of them? Within 3 years the King ofDenmark died, and his brother, the King of the Hellenes fell before an assassin's bullet at Salonika. The youngKing of Portugal was soon in exile in England. 4 Years later, the Archduke Frans Ferdinand, heir apparent to theAustro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife, the Fü Hohenberg, were the victims of a double political murder atSerajevo. Before the convulsions unloosed by that insane act subsided, 3 great empires lay shattered; theGerman Emperor became a woodchopper at Doorn. With defeat in war in 1918, the power of the remainingGerman Royal Houses disappeared almost overnight. King Wilhelm and Queen Charlotte of Wurtemberg,Adolfus, Grandduke of Mecklemburgh-Streilitz and others.Kemal Ataturk, the Turkish Nationalist leader, who drove the Greek Army (Sept. 1922) out of Asia Minor andassumed virtual dictatorship, died of cirrhosis in 1938; Czar Boris III of Bulgaria died mysteriously in 1943;Yugoslavia's Alexander was assassinated in 1934; Prince Paul, Regent of Yugoslavia and King Peter for whomhe acted as Regent had both to flee into exile. Spaniards died in a civil war; Edward VIII of England abdicated;Austria was absorbed into Germany in September 1938 and a slice of Czecho-Slovakia was claimed by Hitlerand actually handed over to him. Kingdoms and countries vanished. Hitler was about to conquer Europe. Hitleris no more. The Nazi effort to dominate Europe has come and gone like a latter-day comet.Empires and kingdoms disappear: the Roman Empire has ceased to be; so has the power of ancient Greece.Who worries today about the once so powerful Portugese and Spanish and Dutch and French conquerors of far-off countries? What happens to France today? What to the once so mighty British empire, now the Britishcommonwealth of nations? History repeats itself, w...