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...monarchy with himself as Regent. Time & again the Government of Royalist Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris has named a date for a plebiscite on Monarchy v. Republic, time & again postponed it. Last week a few surviving republicans and at least two monarchist cliques were preparing coups d'état suitable to a poor, intrigue-ridden nation on the end of the Balkan peninsula, when tough, fierce-eyed, mustachioed War Minister George ("Little Corporal") Kondylis beat them to the draw...
...daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele and that her husband, popular little Tsar Boris III, is inclined to be pro-Italian. A year and a half ago a Bulgarian Army clique which is strongly pro-Yugoslav and pro-French staged a coup d'état and made Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff Premier (TIME, May 21, 1934. et seq.). In April 1935 Boris found a split in the Army clique, edged it out of power and put in his present Premier, the 70-year-old botanist, Andrew Tosheff, under a semi-Fascist "authoritarian" Government. Colonel Gueorguieff's friends...
...Royalist slogans appeared, "Vote For Georgios II, A Democratic King!" The Tsaldaris Cabinet announced it would hold a plebiscite Oct. 27 on a restoration of the Monarchy-provided, of course, that a settlement of the issue by the trusty and traditional Greek method of a coup d'état did not occur before then...
...left inside a patient, every soul connected with the loss frantically searches for the missing stuff. Last week Britain's National Physical Laboratory offered such radium hunters a small, efficient radium locater. Sensitive to the electromagnetic gamma rays which radium continually ejects, it emits a shrill rat-a-tat-tat of clicks whenever it approaches a radium hideout...
...Poland, Catherine solaced herself with a muscular Guards lieutenant named Orlov. But meantime she was making herself as popular as Peter, with his anti-Russian fads, was making himself disliked. When the old Empress finally died Catherine and Peter were at open enmity. A successful coup d'état upped Catherine to the imperial throne. Her lover's brother murdered the miserable Peter-without her knowledge or consent, says Biographer Kaus. Rather than punish her lover, Catherine shouldered the blame for her husband's death...