Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maintaining the Republic against internal discord, to Louis Barthou has gone wide-eyed admiration for spectacularly advancing in a few brief months, the diplomatic position of France. Early this week, as he welcomed to France a Balkan King with whom he was about to make a crucial deal, an assassin shooting at the King brought Death...
...Serbia. Quick as a squirrel a nondescript youth ducked under the police line, leaped to the running board of the royal car. His pistol was scarcely an arm's length from the King as he began to fire. Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! A sabre crashed on the assassin's head. His next shots went wild but the first had done their work. Minister Barthou clutched at his arm. King Alexander jerked, stiffened, then crumpled and slid to the floor of the car. Blood streamed from his mouth, oozed through his chest...
Like madmen a guard of cavalry whirled, charged on the screaming crowd. The assassin fell beneath shots and swords. Hit by a stray bullet, General Dimitriejevitch of Jugoslavia fell mortally wounded. King Alexander lurched half out of his automobile as the aides flung open the door. Horns shrieking, they sped him to the prefecture. There, while surgeons worked desperately over his four wounds, Alexander of Jugoslavia died...
...Malo in Brittany. Suddenly a total stranger stepped on the running board of M. La Chambre's car, jerked open the door, leaned in and slapped M. La Chambre twice across the mouth. "I was a manifestant on Feb. 6." the stranger shouted, "and you were only an assassin." Then he pushed his card into M. La Chambre's hand, muttered "I await your seconds," and made...
...combatants rested the needle points of their shivering blades on it. The referee dropped his rapier. Zing! Clang! M. La Chambre slashed M. Renouvin's blade aside, stuck M. Renouvin decisively in his working arm. A few seconds old, the duel was over. M. La Chambre was no assassin and M. Renouvin was only a rioter, but neither man was willing to shake hands...