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...frontier clashes sputtered all week. Having made an issue of Soviet mines laid in the Japan Sea, Japan claimed they were illegal floating mines, that two Japanese fishing boats had been sunk by them. Anticipating the enlargement of this or some other issue, Russia's Ambassador to Tokyo Constantin Smetanin sent his and other Soviet embassy wives home to the U.S.S.R...
Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, who had little to do now that Japan's policy was definitely decided, took to his bed with a minor, or political, illness. There Russian Ambassador Constantin Smetanin tracked him down, spent a nervous hour and a half trying to get an assurance that Japan would not stick a knife in his country's back...
...Washington, Constantin Fotitch, short, shy and excitable Yugoslav Minister, rushed to see Sumner Welles, came out shining-eyed to cable his joy to King Peter II over "Your Majesty's ascent to the noble throne. . . ." Mr. Welles, less austere than usual, received the press, told the newsmen of the latest message to the U. S. Minister to Yugoslavia: that under the terms of the Lend-Lease Act, President Roosevelt would be able to send material aid to nations resisting aggression. It was a promise to the new Yugoslav Government that it could count...
Russia was involved in one of them. Constantine Oumansky, Soviet Ambassador, has felt the chill of official displeasure for a long time in Washington. But last week he too was in Under Secretary Welles's office, hard on the heels of Constantin Fotitch. And last week when Russia agreed not to take advantage of Turkey's difficulties if Turkey went...
...George Bratianu, scion of the dynasty which secured Rumania its independence, kept it going through World War I, was reported assassinated. Even Red Dog Antonescu was warned to stay quiet or he would be killed. But he was bold enough to put under protective arrest onetime Premiers George Tatarescu, Constantin Argetoianu and Ion Gigurtu, who acquiesced to the cession of northern Transylvania last summer (TIME, Sept...