SPAIN: Reporter Romanov

Before a court at Bayonne last week appeared two sallow Spanish youths. On a tip from Spanish authorities at San Se bastian, French police had raided a little blue-timbered white house at St. Jean-de-Luz, had captured the two sallow youths and a large store of arms and ammunition fresh from U. S. factories. They confessed, and one more plot to restore long-jawed Alfonso XIII to the throne of Spain was bud-nipped.

In New York, Editor Edwin Balmer of Red Book magazine beamed all over his pink and pleasant face. He was about to...

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