It is no easy thing to rule a kingdom.
It is no easy thing to suffer from toothache.
It is, therefore, still less easy to rule a kingdom when you have a toothache. But such was the sad plight last week of Alexander I, King of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes.
Every year King Alexander, who looks like a dentist, repairs to Paris, visits very expensive Dentist Harry Smith.
Last week King Alexander was in Jugoslavia; Dentist Smith in France. Court Dentist Kostich performed an operation on King Alexander’s wisdom tooth. King Alexander, therefore, postponed consultations on his kingdom’s political situation, which, as everyone knows, is perilous as a result of the assassination of the late famed Croat-leader Stefan Raditch (TIME, Aug. 20).
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