Word: ioanna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lacking King Carol, the other two Kings made a splendid show. At the Sofia station were Tsar Boris and his Italian Queen, Ioanna. and the flustered Mayor of Sofia holding a solid gold salver with the traditional offering of bread & salt. Everyone kissed everyone else. For two days there were parades and banquets, tea parties and reviews, and between times weighty conferences between the two Kings, their Foreign Ministers, interspersed with busy telephone calls to King Carol in Bucharest. No official resumes were given out, but every Balkan correspondent knew what the Kings were talking about...
...Rumanians marked for assassination by the 200 terrorists of the Iron Guard was headed by M. Titulescu with Premier Tatarescu about half way down. It was a terrible time for Rumania to have to receive a foreign monarch. Yet undaunted from Bulgaria came brisk little Tsar Boris and Tsaritza Ioanna who is a daughter of the King of Italy. What if they should be assassinated...
Citizens of Sofia were on the qui vive. If they should hear an 101 gun salute that would mean that Tsaritsa Ioanna had been delivered of a Crown Prince-not by Tsar Boris of course. In his antiseptic gear he merely watched...