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...