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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rumania one may refer to Prince Nicholas, weak-chinned younger son of Dowager Queen Marie, as a? "bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend," but it will cost one just four months in jail. Some weeks ago Speed-Fiend Nicholas crashed into a taxicab and in pettish rage" kicked the chauffeur severely under the stomach so that the unfortunate man had to be rushed to the city hospital. One Mircea Damian wrote to the local newspapers in protest, not only calling Prince Nicholas bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend, but adding...
...Bucharest the news from Athens warmed the cockles of many a Rumanian heart. One of the sons-in-law of dynamic Dowager Queen Marie is insipid Georgios II, deposed King of the Hellenes. Doubtless he would resume his rule if by any remote chance Greece should go Royalist...
...Greeks plebiscited 758,742 for the Republic and only 325,322 for gorgeous Georgios, still one of the best-dressed men in Europe. He now lives in London, partly on the bounty of George V with whom he often dines, week ends...
...sharp-eared sacristan discovered a ticking bomb timed to explode during the King's birthday mass. Railway employes fished a 60-lb. bomb off the tracks of the Zagreb-Belgrade railroad just before the special train of a royalist delegation was due to pass. In Zagreb railway station one Dr. Rittig, Croatian priest who had protested loyalty to Jugoslavia's new regime, was severely pummeled by an unidentified assailant before boarding his train. All newspapers publishing accounts of bomb findings or of Dr. Rittig's pummeling were confiscated. Seventeen cafe proprietors were marched to jail charged with...
From the bleak little Siberian town of Habarovsk flashed news last week of an informal meeting between one Tsai Yun-shen, representing China-and one Simbn-ovsky, Soviet. Deploring the Sino-Russian dispute, they signed a peace protocol. The terms: Immediate restoration of joint management of the Chinese Eastern Railway (cause of all the strife); withdrawal of the Soviet army from Manchuria; mutual release of civilian and military prisoners; mutual reopening of consulates; a formal conference at Moscow, Jan. 25, to settle all questions still under dispute. World chancelleries took note, awaited word of the Moscow agenda...