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...Soviet legislators jounced into Moscow last week beaming and expectant. To them Joseph Stalin is a real Santa Claus. Once every few years-they get free rides to Moscow and lavish entertainment at the State's expense. Two thousand strong, they sit in the onetime Throne Room of Tsar Nicholas II and are known as the All-Union Congress of Soviets. The Congress is content that its members do not rule Russia but merely ratify the acts of the Stalin dictature. Hand-picked by Communist agents in the provinces for this duty, the Congressmen and Congresswomen...
...coup made Bulgaria a virtual dictatorship under the leadership of one-eyed, Hitler-lipped Kimon Gueorguieff whose favorite cry was "Our government is neither Right nor Left, but STRAIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE" (TIME, June 4). First reports were that this Gueorguieff dictatorship had the full approval of Little Tsar Boris. But royalists in Austria and Hungary, trying hard to recoup their own fortunes through the restoration of downy-lipped Archduke Otto, learned almost immediately that Boris was practically a prisoner of the dictatorship, that the real dictator was not Through-the-Middle-Man Gueorguieff but a sly Col. Damyam Veltcheff...
Poorest of Europe's royalty, Little Tsar Boris sat in his yellow plaster palace at Sofia and waited. Last week came his chance. Scenting a swing in his favor he had refused fortnight ago to dismiss a number of officers as demanded by War Minister General Zlateff, presumably at the suggestion of the Veltcheff-Gueorguieff dictatorship. General Zlateff did a little scouting on his own, then with a shrill whistle of surprise swung to his sovereign's side. It was a wise move. Last week Little Tsar Boris was strong enough to dismiss the entire dictatorship and make...
...Sofia last week beauteous, Italian-born Tsaritza loanna took the Zlateff coup calmly, seemed confident that General Zlateff will do as much to bulwark the non-existent Crown of Tsar Boris as Editor Mussolini has done to make safe the hereditary crown of her father King Vittorio Emanuele III, a holy crown too small to be worn, supposedly fashioned in part out of a nail from the True Cross...
...Brussels than when discharging his military duties. Nonetheless, when he hears that "Boney" is advancing on the city, the Iron Duke drags himself from the dance floor. He wins the battle calmly, sheds a brief tear for his fallen officers, moves on to Paris to outwit Metternich, the Tsar, Blücher and the King of Prussia. All this time, he is carrying on a mild flirtation with a young and flighty matron. When the peace of Europe is attended to, Wellington ends his philanderings, returns to London, gives his Eton sons pats on the head and winds...