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...AMBASSADOR'S MEMOIRS?Mau-rice Paleologue?Doran (3 vols., $7.50 each). The last French Ambassador to Imperial Russia tells in diary form of his experiences and of his impressions during the last fateful years of the Tsar's autocracy. The Ambassador's eyes have beheld many strange sights and his ears have heard many strange things, all of which have combined to make these books a foremost social and political history of late Imperial Russia...
...Will H. Hays, cinema tsar, pleaded for $15,000,000 that preachers might be adequately pensioned. Representing a laymen's committee on the fund, he said that U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon had accepted fiscal stewardship of the fund of the Presbyteries...
Upon the good ship Paris arrived in Manhattan Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna, cousin of King George of Britain, younger sister of Queen Marie of Rumania, wife of Cyrille Vladimiro- vitch, self-ordained Tsar of all the Russias (TIME...
...comic behind these grandiloquent phrases was that the "Tsar of All the Russias," known as "Cyrille Égalité'' (TIME, Nov. 17), is recognized by only a handful of Grand Dukes. Last September, he took the singularly inconsequental step of proclaiming himself Tsar, as if Tsar, crownless and throneless, had any significance...
...momentous letter addressed to Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch, to whom she referred as head of the House of Romanov, thereby implying that he was the rightful successor to her son Nicholas. As she has never been able to bring herself to the point of believing that the Tsar was murdered at Ekaterinoslav, the question of the succession, out of deference to the Dowager Empress, to outward appearances has been a dead issue for the Grand Duke Nikolai. He has preferred to remain quiet and believes with his cousin (the Dowager Empress) that "our future Emperor will be designated...