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Nothing was done about the coming Saar plebiscite beyond allowing the recruiting of a special German-speaking police force in Italy and Luxembourg...
...nonpayment of dues. Out of 30,000,000 gold francs (Swiss) due from member nations in 1934, more than 14,000,000 francs remain unpaid. Even punctilious Britain still owes 1,000,597 francs for the year. The League secretariat could only list twelve nations (Canada, Denmark, Spain, India, Luxembourg, Mexico, Norway, Holland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey) that are not in arrears...
...dickering last week Zita was seconded by her brother Felix. Prince Consort of the reigning Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, who was also present. The six royalties finally agreed that the engagement of Maria and Otto should be made known as a fact but not published for the present in King Vittorio Emmanuele's Royal Gazette. Conceivably the wedding may turn upon whether Archduke Otto regains Austria's Imperial Throne or at least the Hungarian Royal Throne. When the engagement had been made de facto last week Zita and Princess Maria embraced, and Zita's seven younger offspring were presented...
...Finally in honor of his approaching 75th birthday he went on a final grand tour. As it had when he was 20, Paris greeted him hysterically. This time London, too, was cordial; Victoria invited him to Windsor Castle. All Europe held concerts in his honor. On his way from Luxembourg to Bayreuth to hear Tristan a honeymooning couple entered his second-class compartment, leaned gaily out of the open window. Franz Liszt caught a chill. At Bayreuth it developed into pneumonia. His last word: "Tristan!" The Princess died a year later...
PRODIGAL DAYS-Evelyn Nesbit-Messner ($2.50). The bone of contention between Harry K. Thaw and the late Stanford White tells all to the public. THE POEMS OF RICHARD ALDINGTON- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Collected poems: The Eaten Heart, A Dream in the Luxembourg, et al.; some new ones. A CHILD WENT FORTH-Helen MacKnight Doyle, M. D.-Gotham House ($3). Autobiography of a woman doctor in the West, famed as a U. S. pioneer in her profession. THE ROMANCE OF LABRADOR-Sir Wilfred Grenfell-Macmillan ($4). Famed missionary-doctor looks at the past, present and future of his adopted country...