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CATHERINE-PARIS - Princess Marthe Bibesco-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). This faithful chart of the peregrinations of high society in pre-War Europe is shocking evidence of just how pre-War dull those peregrinations were. Rumanian born, but bred in democratic Paris, Princess Catherine marries an Austro-Polish count, who withdraws immediately to his round of mistresses, leaving his consort to make her rounds of pompous European courts. Though Franz Joseph, Wilhelm II, and the Czar are the objects of the princess's irony, they prove as boring to her as to her readers. Not until she gets back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dull Peregrinations | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...Princess Helen of Greece and Rumania, mother of Baby King Mihai of Rumania, and sister of the deposed King George II of Greece; at Bucharest. Temporarily the suit will come before the Court of Appeals, spiritually before the Most Holy Myron Cristea, patriarchal Ecclesiarch ("Church Ruler") of the independent Rumanian Orthodox Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...Scottish estate as Dunross, and Laura, her favorite sister, was just such a charmer as Octavia. Upon Laura's death, Margot sought consolation in London, slumming, dancing, falling often in love. In 1894 she married a widower, Herbert Henry Asquith.* Her two children are Elizabeth, who married Rumanian Prince Bibesco, and Anthony ("Puffin") who directs cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Horsey Romance | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Questions. Up before the Council were three vital questions upon which it had delayed to act for months or years: 1) Shall the Rumanian Government pay compensation for lands expropriated by it from Hungarian citizens? (TIME, Sept. 26); 2) Should the League fix responsibility and apply censure in the matter of the Italian arms which were smuggled into Hungary in defiance of the Treaty of Trianon? (TIME, March 5); 3) Shall the Baltic city of Vilna belong to Poland (now holding it by authority of the Allied Council of Ambassadors); or to Lithuania (which received Vilna from Soviet Russia under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Council Sits | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...correspondents who hastened to Athens at news of M. Venizelos' political renaissance, he said: "The royalist press continues to declare that King George II [now a Rumanian resident] will come back. That is why I have come back. . . . The Liberal Party must not be allowed to disintegrate. . . . We must not relax our vigilant purpose to maintain the Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Venizelos Crisis | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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