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...European plan for a President to remain aloof, letting the Premier do the work, and to make only the stuffiest State visits abroad, but when "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman" Dr. Eduard Benes was elected President of Czechoslovakia (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935) everyone knew his way of doing things would be more on the American plan. Last week Dr. & Mrs. Benes arrived at Belgrade to face not the usual assemblage of many Serbian loafers rounded up by police and given a few coppers to cheer, but a mighty ovation such as President Roosevelt got in South America...
...Last week Polish arms plants were starting work on large orders for Rumania, and recently King Carol paid a state visit to Prague, placed similar munitions orders for Rumania with the great Skoda works. Not only was His Majesty feted discreetly by "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia, but the Archbishop of Prague permitted his flock to eat meat that Friday with abandon, and the electric works furnished current at reduced rates to citizens who strung up lights on their houses in honor of Carol...
Increasingly pot-bellied King Carol of Rumania was last week back in Bucharest, his capital, after an eventful visit to Prague where he had discussed future policy towards Russia with Czechoslovakia's pro-French President Eduard Benes. To Prague also went Carol's 15-year-old son, rolypoly Crown Prince Mihai, for King Carol, suspecting that his former wife Princess Helen might return to Rumania in his absence and make trouble, was not taking the risk of leaving Mihai behind. So strongly did he feel about what he considered to be Princess Helen's capacity for mischief...
...Eduard Norden, of the University of Berlin, Classical Philology...
...into an automobile, rode on to the next relay point. Re-lit, the flame crossed the Hungarian border at 6 a. m., reached Budapest in the evening. Next day, its progress through Austria was the occasion for a great Austrian Nazi demonstration (see p. 24). At Prague, Czechoslovakian President Eduard ("Europe's Smartest Little Statesman") Benes found in a change of runners the theme for a speech about Olympic Ideals and World Peace. Scrupulously photographed during its progress by members of the staff of 150 cameramen who are helping Cinemactress Riefenstahl make a prodigious Olympic Film to be released...