RUSSIA: Boris to the U. S.

Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovitch, brother of Grand Duke Kyrill, self-styled "Tsar of All the Russias" and cousin of the late Tsar, boarded at Cherbourg the liner Olympic which forthwith churned her way through many miles of water United States ward.

Shortly afterwards, "the smiling, swarthy, confident little Socialist from New York," Congressman Fiorello H. La Guardia, wrote a letter to U. S. Secretary of Labor Davis. He asserted that "this Grand Duke Boris" was coming to the U. S. He wanted Secretary Davis to make sure that the Grand Duke was not likely...

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