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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
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...