Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alexander of Jugoslavia trusted nobody, but at least he understood his neighbors, King Carol of Rumania and little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. For over a year, with the mounting threat of Nazi Germany and its dream of eastern expansion and the possibility of a Habsburg restoration in Austria, he attempted to arrange a meeting of all three Kings with their respective foreign ministers discreetly in the background. Always a new crisis in hectic Rumania had made the tripartite meeting impossible...
Fortnight ago Alexander of Jugoslavia, his Queen, and his Foreign Minister entrained for Tsar Boris' Bulgaria. The Rumanian Cabinet was threatening to resign (it was reconstructed almost intact), Mistress Magda Lupescu had a bad cold so King Carol could not come...
From crowned Romanovs to cap-wearing Bolsheviks, M. Barthou has known his Russians for nearly two generations. In 1896 he was Minister of Interior and as such responsible for the safety in France of newly-crowned Tsar Nicholas II who came to throw a magnificent bridge across the Seine in memory of his father Tsar Alexander III. Today le Pont Alexandre-Trois is still the most magnificent in Paris and across it in his long-snouted Renault limousine M. Barthou has ridden in animated conversation with Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, the roly-poly one time traveling salesman...
Died. Countess Catherine Breshkovskaya, 90, "grandmother of the Russian revolution"; after long illness; in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Of rich, noble birth, she plotted revolution against the Tsar, lived and worked with Russian peasants, was exiled to Siberia in 1878. In 1917, Kerensky, who was at her death bed last week, ordered her back to Russia where she was received with tumultuous acclaim. When the Kerensky regime collapsed, she was again exiled from Russia...
...themselves to sell nothing more to Germany until their arrears are paid up and notified His Majesty's Government that their mills will stay closed indefinitely. Same day in Berlin that master bluffer of international finance. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and newly created ''Economic and Financial Tsar," suddenly issued a manifesto to the effect that "Germany, if necessary, can dispense with all raw material imports." This presumably was the opening move of Dr. Schacht, who always starts from zero, in a game to jockey the British cotton men into consenting to part payment on what they...