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...fighting craft (TIME, April 21). The Austrians cheered louder when their President, Wilhelm Miklas, stepped into a plane to be flown about by Capt. F. K. Cannon. Pilot Cannon essayed no stunts; landed his passenger gently, as befits a prospective buyer.* Doolittle's Circus, having shown their wares at Sofia, Belgrade, Bucharest, Istanbul, will push on to Prague, Berlin...
...Four Banks" of Italy were regrouped by a merger under the aegis of the Dictator into the "Big Three Banks" (TIME, Feb. 24). Perhaps by coincidence, but certainly as a result of Italian and Bulgarian minds again working along parallel lines, a similar merger followed last week in Sofia...
...diplomatic corps at Sofia the bet was puzzling. Signor Piacentini should know best of anyone whether his Government was willing and able to make the match. If he believed the wedding would go through within a year, did he not know it would? Was not the Greek Minister rashly wagering against a sure thing...
...March the little Tsar himself left Sofia incognito?left behind a joyous and expectant people, thousands of whom had put Princess Giovanna's picture in one corner of their windowpanes and Tsar Boris' in the other. Sofia cafés were hastily renamed Konditorei Giovanna. Delighted Bulgarian editors "learned on highest authority" that Pope Pius XI had agreed to the following compromise: all offspring of Roman Catholic Princess Giovanna except her first-born male would be reared as Roman Catholics; but the premier male, as Crown Prince of Bulgaria, would espouse the Eastern Orthodox religion in order to comply with...
...Belgian Roman Catholic Princess Marie José to the heir of Italy. An audience was granted to His Majesty by Pope Pius XI. The Holy Father listened perhaps to amorous pleadings and arguments by the world's only Bachelor Tsar. But last week the bet was definitely lost. Ruefully at Sofia, His Excellency the Italian Minister?not a sure- thing better after all?drew his check for 50,000 drachma and sent it round to the Greek Legation...