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Exile church canonizes the last Tsar and 30,000 other martyrs
...Tsar Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, would seem to some an unlikely candidate for sainthood. He consulted faith healers, intervened highhandedly in church affairs and ruled with a sublime ineffectiveness that helped pave the way for the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. But last week in New York City, Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, their son and four daughters, all murdered in 1918 by the Bolsheviks, became saints. In an unprecedented ceremony of glorification, they, along with some 30,000 other Russian Orthodox Christians killed by the Soviets, were named "martyrs" and canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia...
...Tsar, who ruled Russia for 23 years, also served as temporal leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. His killing thus has a special significance for a church that refuses to acknowledge the present Patriarch of Moscow because of his subservience to an atheistic regime responsible for the deaths of as many as 12 million Christians. The murder of the imperial family was "not merely an act of political reprisal," wrote Metropolitan Philaret, the church's New York City-based leader, in a special epistle on the canonization, "but an act principally of the spiritual annihilation of Russian Orthodoxy...
...Kong, a center of industrial activity whose smoggy air often fouls the otherwise clear skies of sleepy Los Angeles. Defeated by Japan at the Battle of Tsushima Strait in 1905, Russia was forced to give up Russian America, sometimes known as Alaska. Now, under its young and aggressive new Tsar, Nicholas VII, it seems determined to regain that conquered territory and plunge the world into what could well be the first world...
...Tsar Nicholas II of Russia called a meeting of European leaders in The Hague, The Netherlands, to discuss disarmament and world peace. Out of that meeting was formed the Permanent Court of Arbitration that has ever since served as an international referee in settling disputes between sovereign nations. Last week, a new body, the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, began proceedings in the court's headquarters. Its task will probably be far larger and more complicated than anything the old court encountered in its 82-year history: settling the claims of an estimated 3,300 corporations against the revolutionary...