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Somerset House, where wills going back to 1382-including those of Shakespeare, Nelson, Gladstone-are filed, lost its lovely staircase. John Nash's nobly curving Regent Street was ripped by a time bomb. A German squadron boasted it had toasted victory in champagne in the sky, and then dropped the empty bottles on the palace which was bought from the Duke of Buckingham by one of Britain's German Kings, George III. Rougher ammunition blasted the palace five times, and tore at the spot where millions have watched the changing of the guard. Hit was the paneled house...
Before & After. During the whole agonizing abdication crisis Hungarian troops, led by Regent Horthy on a white charger, were slowly moving into Transylvania. Tens of thousands of Rumanian peasants were being shunted to new homes. They and their chickens and ducks overflowed Rumanian railway cars so tightly jammed that most of the human and animal freight got in & out of windows instead of doors. Small bands of Rumanian soldiers and petty officers announced they would resist the Hungarians by waging guerrilla warfare in the Carpathians, but none of these bands caused the occupying Hungarian forces much trouble...
...emissary of Regent Nicholas Horthy, especially picked for the purpose, kissed Count Teleki on both cheeks. The map in Liberty Square was replanted to obliterate the border between Hungary and the ceded wedge of Transylvania...
Died. Jean Rodenbaugh Davis, 51, first grand regent of the Women of the Moose, wife of Senator James J. Davis (Rep. Pa.), Secretary of Labor from 1921 to 1930 and still Director General of the Loyal Order of Moose; of heart disease; in Ventnor...
...Balkans only Yugoslavia's Regent Prince Paul still held out. Italy wanted him to replace Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch with Dr. Ante Pavelitch, a fugitive in Italy for plotting the assassination of King Alexander I. Germany wanted Dr. Milan Stoyadinovitch, who was recently released from jail after being caught in a fifth-column roundup (TIME, April 29). Whichever way Prince Paul moved, his country was doubtless in for some territorial revisions...