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Moscow fired all the big guns of Bolshevik publicity on the 20th anniversary of Gavrilo Princip's deed. According to the official Soviet Press: "If the last war resulted in one great Union of Soviet Republics, how certain is the next war to bring the World Revolution of the World Proletariat!"
Bucharest watched French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou zipping purposefully around the powder house of Europe —the Balkans.
Istanbul led other capitals with a new stamp depicting an event in the next war. An enemy air fleet is shown attacking a Turkish factory located on a mountain top. A Turkish plane dives valiantly to crash the enemy. By order of Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha 100,000 of these war scare stamps have been printed as a first series and will be sold "to build up Turkey's air defense."