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Throughout Italy last week municipal authorities were in possession of a circular letter sent them by their prefects. The prefects in their turn had received similar letters from Premier Benito Mussolini to the effect that there must be no more adenoids in the realm...
...long as we have emotions--and any other conception of life is unthinkable--a craving for the dramatic and for the humorous; so long shall we feel for Beethoven that love and reverence which open before us vistas of a realm where the soul and the imagination have endless scope...
...State for War, Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, had requested the Home Office to raid Arcos, Ltd. in order to recover certain stolen War Office documents which it was thought might be found there. If this request was made, the raid was technically legal under the Defense of the Realm Act of 1911; but the only possible justification for it in public opinion would be the finding of startlingly incriminating documents of some sort...
...Danilo Petrovic, Crown Prince of Montenegro until that realm was united with Jugoslavia (1918), entered a cinema theatre in Paris, last week, sat down, composed himself to view lily-fleshed Mae Murray in The Merry Widow. . . . Next day a wrathful M. Danilo Petrovic strode into the office of M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, famed barrister, repeatedly French representative before the League of Nations, known because of his silver tongue as "The Socialist Demosthenes," several times retained as an attorney by the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania. For an hour the statesman-lawyer and the onetime prince laid their heads together...
Amid green meadows, but perched atop a small plateau lies the Capital City of Luxembourg, seat of that pastoral realm, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which dozes complacently between Belgium and Germany, populated by 200,000 sturdy folk of such mixed Teuto-Latin strain that they remind one of that fabulous being, the "typical American."* Thither, to the City and State of Luxembourg, there came last week the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 15, claimant to the Hungarian throne (TIME, Jan. 24). With him arrived his mother, Zita, one-time Hungarian Queen and Austrian Empress. They came from the little fishing...