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...religious groups which might threaten his government. There is an at tempt to stop political assassinations by solemnly reviving a 120-year-old law providing that all Senators and Deputies must leave their pistols, their daggers and their bludgeons in a special check room before entering Parliament. What Jugoslavian citizens really receive is an increase in local autonomy, a chance to vote for somebody. Outside pressure had been exerted to bring about this watering of the dictatorship. Within 24 hours the world press was calling it "another victory for France's golden bullets...
...firmest allies, one of her greatest debtors. Last May French bankers lent Jugoslavia $42,000,000. Within the past two or three months King Alexander has sought another loan. French bankers, listening to promptings from the Quai d'Orsay. replied that the efficacy of the large, well-paid Jugoslavian army was seriously damaged by Croat and Slovene plottings, that the dictatorship must be ended in order to bring these recalcitrants into line before the money bags jingled again. President Thomas Masaryk and Foreign Minister Edouard Benes of Czechoslovakia, another of France's allies, were equally insistent...
...like a wild walrus. When sober and not occupied with affairs of state he kept a bookstore in Zagreb. Drunk or sober Stefan Raditch could set the voters of Croatia on fire as no one else could. As leader of the Opposition he was foully shot down in the Jugoslavian Parliament by a Government Deputy (TIME, July 2, 1928). In Paris last week Croat Raditch's son, Vladimir Raditch, won his academic degree at the school of Higher Social Studies by presenting a thesis which might well have been called How My Father Was Murdered. The actual title...
Convicted last week of "terroristic manifestations" and conspiracy to assassinate Signore Benito Mussolini, four Jugoslavian youths were led out at dawn onto the broad parade ground at Trieste...
...With 725,000 troops. Armies of other nations rank: second French, 643,675; third British, 394,519; fourth Italian, 353,120; fifth Rumanian, 325,000; sixth Spanish, 243,511; seventh Polish, 229,900; eighth Japanese, 210,000: ninth Czechoslovakian, 158,103; tenth Jugoslavian, 141,568; eleventh...