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Last week Madrid's dramatic censor forbade production of a new. play by Spain's leading dramatist, Jacinto Benavente, in which were to have appeared a fictional Prime Minister, King, Queen and invalid Crown Prince. The stage King and Queen were to have quarreled with their Prime Minister over whether religious or medical agencies should be invoked to cure the Crown Prince...
...ordinary murderer but the ferocious, scowling Alcibiade Bebe, who last year assassinated a brother-in-law of smart little King Ahmed Zogu of Albania, finally came to trial last week, in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where his crime was committed...
Despatches from the Albanian capital of Tirana, last week, extravagantly rumored that over 300 minor and major blood feuds are now pending against well guarded King Ahmed Zogu. It was also rumored that the Sovereign had broken off the engagement which has bound him since childhood to wed Lela, luscious 23-year-old daughter of the great Albanian tribal chieftain Shevket Bey Verlatzi. Such a jilt, if actually perpetrated, can scarcely fail to engender another deadly blood feud...
Reputedly the engagement was broken because His Majesty, a puppet of Signor Benito Mussolini, now aspires to wed a Royal princess. If his fanatical Moslem subjects permit him to turn Roman Catholic he may espouse Princess Giovanna of Italy. If that much mooted match proves infeasible, the Moslem King might conceivably marry one of the Moslem daughters of His Majesty Fuad I of Egypt. Unquestionably any princess who marries King Ahmed Zogu takes her life in her hands and risks the imminent possibility that her husband may turn corpse...
...most dread punishments commonly inflicted by ruthless Dictator-King Amanullah of Afghanistan upon male offenders is "public exposure...