Word: balkanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vienna, Wednesday, Oct. 31--Balkan capitals seethed today with rumors of a plot against the life of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria but whether an attempt on the life of the Bulgar ruler really was made, newspaper correspondents, for the time, were unable to learn...
...chief mourners at murdered King Alexander's funeral last week brought their own soldiers. The soldiers brought plenty of ammunition for their own rifles. It was that kind of a Balkan funeral, grand and grim. Perhaps never until last week had all Europe escorted to his tomb with so much pomp and precaution a monarch only four generations in descent from a swineherd...
...Adolf Hitler's blustering Air Minister and Premier of Prussia, General Hermann Wilhelm Göring. He embarrassed everyone by hailing King Alexander as a dictator-which indeed His Majesty was-and strongly implying that the Jugoslav Government had friendly ties with Nazi Berlin. In ruthless, effective Balkan fashion the police of Belgrade proceeded to make Alexander's funeral safe. Over 6,500 suspects and near-suspects were thrown into jail. Lest someone try to take a crack at General Goring every German immigrant in the capital was put under house arrest. Despite incessant rains the carrying...
...Belgrade foreign ministers of the Little Entente (Jugoslavia, Rumania and Czechoslovakia) held a joint meeting for the first time with their peers of the Balkan Entente (Turkey, Jugoslavia, Greece and Rumania). In guarded language, well (Continued on p. 20) knowing that they were treading on diplomatic egg shells charged with dynamite, they issued an affirmation of the duty of all states to cooperate in preventing political assassinations. Informally they then discussed with correspondents the many rumors that terrorists, escaped from Jugoslavia, have been harbored in Hungary in circumstances suggesting that their keep might have been paid by Italians who felt...
...Europe echoed with the pitiful cry of little King Peter: "Why did they do it?" They did it because the various Balkan nationalities that were persuaded to throw in their lot with Serbia after the War feel that they have been bilked of their due. The Kingdom that they thought they were joining, that of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, quickly became Jugoslavia, in which only the voice of Serbia could be heard. Bosnians, Herzegovinians, Slovenes found Serbia a far more brutal master than Austria-Hungary. Any effort to state national aspirations in public brought instant oppression, exile, often torture...