Visits

Off the train at Bled, Yugoslavia, last week hopped Premier George Kiosseivanoff, of Bulgaria. This Balkan statesman had just visited Berlin, where he had passed through flag-lined streets, been put up at sumptuous Bellevue Castle and been feasted by Fuhrer Hitler at the Chancellery. At Bled, a Yugoslav summer resort, M. Kiosseivanoff had a reception less toney, but just as friendly. High point of his stop-over was a visit to Castle Brno, where he chatted long and amiably with the polished, cultured Prince Paul, First Regent of Yugoslavia.

Prince Paul only a few weeks previously had undergone even more lavish Berlin treatment and had acted somewhat pained by it. Although known personally to prefer London's and Paris' ways to Berlin's, the Regent has nevertheless recognized that Yugoslavia is now soundly squeezed between Germany and Italy (in Albania) and that when Fuehrer Hitler wants to entertain him he has to take it.

Observers thought it significant that before the Kiosseivanoff train pulled out for Sofia the Bulgarian Premier and Yugoslav Foreign Minister Alexander Cinca-Markovitch issued a joint communique emphasizing their countries' "neutrality." Balkan newsmen smelled a Hitler-sponsored Balkan bloc arising, and believed that this Yugoslav-Bulgarian "neutrality" had the blessing of the Rome-Berlin Axis just as Rumanian and Greek "neutrality" was blessed by Britain and France. With Yugoslavia now friendly with Bulgaria, it looked as if the Balkan Entente of Turkey, Greece, Rumania and Yugoslavia, an entente aimed at Bulgaria, was about to fall apart.

At week's end Prince Paul did something more to his liking when he entrained for London to be the guest at Buckingham Palace of King George and Queen Elizabeth. The Prince and his wife, Princess Olga, insisted their visit was a private affair to see the Duke & Duchess of Kent before their departure in November for Australia, where the Duke will assume his duties of Governor General. Princess Marina, the Duchess, is Princess Olga's sister.

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