On the continent of Europe last week, save Sweden's Gustaf, there was only one King who could call his crown his own. This was Boris III of Bulgaria. And among Europe's hurrying traders in sovereignty, this sovereign's was perhaps the most ticklish predicament of all, his footwork perhaps the neatest.
Until the spring of 1934, Boris was just another playful Balkan monarch. He liked most of all the boyish pastime of playing with railroad trains real ones. His royal hobby became so famous that Yugoslav engineers named him Locomotive Führer Honoris Causa. Then...
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