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Queen Marie of Rumania telephoned in some agitation last week to her daughter Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. King Ferdinand of Rumania, phoned Queen Marie to Queen Marie, had suffered a relapse in his long, chronic illness (TIME, Nov. 29 et seq.). Soon a telephone operator who overheard the royal conversation started a rumor which grew and gathered, gravity until correspondents in Berlin asserted "on the highest authority" that King Ferdinand was dead...
...expired during the week. Mexicans feared this announcement was a hint that the U. S. intends to cancel its embargo preventing the shipment of arms into Mexico, if the Mexican Government does not yield in the matter of allegedly confiscatory land and oil laws (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926 et seq.). If the embargo is lifted a revolution in Mexico would probably follow. In any case it will be easier to smuggle liquids and solids into the U. S. from Mexico from...
...South. Armed men, a hundred strong, rode in these automobiles-modern equivalents of a bodyguard of cavalry. A slim but unmistakably commanding Southern Chinese, clad in a uniform entirely unadorned, rode in the third motor car. This was the great Conqueror of half China (TIME, Sept. 20 et seq.), the Nationalist War Lord Chiang Kaishek...
Catholics rejoiced that this compromise has been reached in Chile, hoped that the Mexican Government-still adamant against Catholicism (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926 et seq.)-may yet be similarly prevailed upon...
...French resentment at the U. S. disarmament attitude crystallized sharply when the League of Nations Secretariat made public last week a memorandum from the U. S. practically negativing all the recommendations of the League of Nations Preparatory Commission for a disarmament conference TIME, May 24 et seq.). A British memorandum backing up the U. S. stand was reputed on high authority to be in preparation. Frenchmen felt that the slim chances for holding a League disarmament conference were evaporating...