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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loath was onetime President Deschanel of France to leave the privacy of his own railway compartment that in 1920, while relieving himself through an open window, he fell out of the train in his pajamas and ruined his political career. No such clumsy timidity bothers the little Tsar of Bulgaria. Far too poor to have a private train of his own, Boris III is apt to be all over the public trains he uses. Like the late great Albert of Belgium, Tsar Boris is an impassioned locomotive engineer, likes to spend much time in the engine cab, although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: At the Throttle | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

Vienna, Wednesday, Oct. 31--Balkan capitals seethed today with rumors of a plot against the life of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria but whether an attempt on the life of the Bulgar ruler really was made, newspaper correspondents, for the time, were unable to learn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salients in the Day's News | 10/31/1934 | See Source »

...vigorous censorship was clamped on at Sofia, and served only to strengthen rumors of a plot against the Tsar similar to that which cost the life of King Alexander of Jugoslavia at Marseilles, France, this month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salients in the Day's News | 10/31/1934 | See Source »

...Overlooking the harbor of Stockholm, the Alands are some 300 sandy, stony little islands and one big one. They are full of Swedes but, after 600 years of being passed around among Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Russia, they now belong to Finland. They were heavily fortified by the Russian Tsars and in the closing years of the War they became the object of a free-for-all among the Bolsheviks, the Red & White Finns, the Swedes and the Germans. The Islanders themselves howled for Sweden. The White Finns won and Sweden nearly went to war about it. The League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND-SWEDEN: Defenders of the Alands | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

Lacking King Carol, the other two Kings made a splendid show. At the Sofia station were Tsar Boris and his Italian Queen, Ioanna. and the flustered Mayor of Sofia holding a solid gold salver with the traditional offering of bread & salt. Everyone kissed everyone else. For two days there were parades and banquets, tea parties and reviews, and between times weighty conferences between the two Kings, their Foreign Ministers, interspersed with busy telephone calls to King Carol in Bucharest. No official resumes were given out, but every Balkan correspondent knew what the Kings were talking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: On to Paris | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

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