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...this time Little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria went about Paris with utmost decorum, accepted his entourage of detectives with no effort either to entertain or to elude them, and moved Parisian Bulgarians to cry: "Every inch a Tsar! Long live His Majesty...
...affiliate of Soviet Russia's Greek Orthodox Church is headed by young Archbishop Nicholas John Kedroff, Dean of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Manhattan. Said the Archbishop last week: "In some ways the Church has more freedom in Russia now than it had under the Tsars. Then the Church was the means through which the Tsars ruled, indirectly at least. The preaching of the clergy was censored by edict of the Tsar and nonconforming prelates were imprisoned in dank and frigid Solovetsky Monastery on an island in the White Sea. The clergy in Russia today...
...were fired salutes. Queen Maud of Norway, only surviving child of Britain's Edward VII, arrived with her tall King Haakon VII; Queen Alexandrine of Denmark with her even taller King Christian X. Sad Leopold III, widower King of the Belgians, came with his brother. Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria left his Tsarina in Sofia...
...little Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, to whom was assigned as Lord-in-Waiting moose-tall Lord Howard of Penrith, onetime British Ambassador in Washington. For Adolf Hitler walked owl-solemn Baron Constantin von Neurath, who is not a Nazi. For Benito Mussolini stepped spruce Crown Prince Umberto. Tsar Boris of Bulgaria had to make his legs twinkle to keep up with the long strides of Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf. For Joseph Stalin walked Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. Only unexpected absentee was George V's particular friend and protege George II, the newly restored King...
Nicholas Holtz was a fiend in tycoon form, but he was also a potent and respectable citizen. The unseen tsar of a million destinies, he had in his grasp three U. S. towns, complete with their industries, police force, politics. In devious but sufficiently direct ways he controlled everything that went on therein. Of the many simmering pies to which his finger had the prime right of poke, his armament industry was the pet. And armaments meant not simply steel but explosives, gas, chemicals...