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While observers were still wondering whether the first-born steppe-child of the Berlin-Moscow marriage would be a Budapest-Bucharest axis, an internal axis was born-the Serbs and Croats finally got around to sporazum in Yugoslavia...
Whatever the cause, His Majesty changed his course and decided to take an even more roundabout way. Accompanied by Queen Geraldine, his three-month-old son Skander, four of his sisters and a suite of 20, Zog first went to Bucharest, Rumania's capital. The temporary crisis over Danzig caused him to stay there three days, but when things died down he proceeded on to Warsaw. From Warsaw early this week he was scheduled to go to Gdynia, the Baltic Polish port near Danzig, where he was to catch a ship for France. Onthelstanbul-Bucharest-Warsaw-Gdynia-Paris route...
...dangerous downwind landing, Sarabia's friends had their fingers crossed. His plane, the Q.E.D., had an unlucky history. In 1934 in the Granville Brothers' factory (Springfield, Mass.) it was built for Jacqueline Cochran to fly in a London-Melbourne race. Miss Cochran was forced down at Bucharest. Later the Q.E.D. was entered in four important U. S. races, never finished one. Last year Sarabia bought it from Dealer Charles Babb of Los Angeles...
...Warsaw from a much publicized diplomatic swing to Ankara, Sofia and Bucharest went Vladimir Potemkin, the U.S.S.R.'s Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs. Retired Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and Colonel Beck always rubbed each other the wrong way. Colonel Beck had not talked diplomatic matters over with a Russian since 1934. But Comrade Potemkin was different...
Axis Victory. Rumanian Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu, fresh from talking with Dictator Hitler, went to London to put the finishing touches to the Rumanian-British-French-Polish alliance. Conversely, at Bucharest arrived a group of British financial experts to plan an extension of trade between the two countries. In a week full of diplomatic soundings, however, the Axis powers scored the most important victory...