Word: principality
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...cart, decked it with flowers. On either side of the road brawny youths and robust girls of Sarajevo's so-called "athletic associations" mounted vigorous guard. Slowly the cart creaked to Sarajevo's cemetery and there proud gravediggers buried the bones of the archconspirator who instigated Student Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Austria's Crown Prince, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Who was this archconspirator? Outside the grim circle of his admirers, his name is scarcely known, but Sarajevo has waited and schemed 17 years for a chance to bury Vladimir Gachinovich...
...stood with Princip!" cut in Editor Rupchich proudly. "The first shot killed the Archduke and the second killed his wife Sophie as she flung herself over him. Then I remember that Count Harrock of Austria rushed upon my poor friend Princip and split his shoulder to the bone with one blow of a sabre. Horrible...
...Semiz philosophized. "That was the beginning and the end of the War for us in Sarajevo. No more shots were fired here. Men were conscripted to fight for the Austrians and they came home to find themselves Jugoslavs. So much the better! I never thought that that young student Princip sipping his coffee in my café would throw Kings and Emperors and Sultans off their thrones and upset the World by two pistol shots...
Over the barber shop, on the wall against which Student Princip leaned, his fellow townsmen of Sarajevo have erected a handsome plaque: "ON THIS HISTORIC SPOT GAVRILO PRINCIP HERALDED THE ADVENT OF LIBERTY ON ST. VITUS DAY, JUNE 28TH 1914." In the cemetery outside the town is a tablet to "THE HEROES OF ST. VITUS DAY," Shooter Princip, Nedielko Cabrinovic, whose clumsily thrown bomb glanced harmlessly off Archduke Franz Ferdinand's shoulder earlier in the day, and Trifko Grabez who helped Princip and Cabrinovic get their weapons from Serbia...
Quietly, 80 miles south of Sarajevo, live Hero Princip's honored parents, simple peasants. Though proud of him and unremitting in their prayers for the safety of his soul, they are proud too of his brother, the Hon. Jovan Princip, today a Member of the Jugoslav Chamber of Deputies...