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...bridesmaid: Beauteous Grand Duchess Kyra Kyrilovna, daughter of His Majesty the Orthodox and Pious and Christ Loving, the Absolute Autocrat and Great Lord, Kyril Alexandrovich, Emperor of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan,-if Josef Stalin would only...
...children; in a Vienna hospital, in destitution. Otto took her from the theatre when she was 22, established her in a Vienna suburb, gave her the run of his Schönau Palace. She nursed Otto on his deathbed, was granted 200,000 gold crowns by Emperor Franz Josef. After she married Baron Poglodowski the money was frittered away, her children emigrated to the U.S.; she was finally reduced to begging in the streets...
Last week a U. S. correspondent brought home an interview with U. S. S. R.'s handsome, crisp Assistant Commissar of Finance R. J. Levin. It would have been utterly incomprehensible to anyone who holds to the world-wide fallacy that Soviet Russia now practices Communism. Clearly and repeatedly Josef Stalin has said that he is "building Socialism," hopes some day to start building Communism. Communism, the ultimate objective, is a pure, lofty idea: "from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs." Socialism is merely "the union of agriculture with socialist industry . . . such as will...
Just before the Sejm, Poland's despised parliament (often called "a prostitute" by profane, eccentric War Minister Josef Pilsudski), assembled last week the Government published three decree laws to strengthen still further Poland's defenses. All citizens of both sexes from 17 to 60 are made liable to "auxiliary military service," may be conscripted by a single Cabinet order, even in peace time. In case of war, the Government may conscript all property and, by implication, money. In peace time, under a subsection of this second decree, the State may order factories adapted for quick conversion...
...body of the murdered King. There was not time for an entirely original design but Julius Maschner & Son are used to rushing work. In existence for some 300 years, the firm has made coffins for Maria Theresa, the Empress Elizabeth, the murdered Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg, Emperor Franz Josef, the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch of Serbia. In the elaborate neo-Byzantine Kara-Georgevitch family tomb on the hill of Oplenatz murdered Alexander of Jugoslavia, in his Austrian sarcophagus, will soon lie. From their catalog, Julius Maschner & Son chose the same model coffin as those they...