Word: croatian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discovered a ticking bomb timed to explode during the King's birthday mass. Railway employes fished a 60-lb. bomb off the tracks of the Zagreb-Belgrade railroad just before the special train of a royalist delegation was due to pass. In Zagreb railway station one Dr. Rittig, Croatian priest who had protested loyalty to Jugoslavia's new regime, was severely pummeled by an unidentified assailant before boarding his train. All newspapers publishing accounts of bomb findings or of Dr. Rittig's pummeling were confiscated. Seventeen cafe proprietors were marched to jail charged with "encouraging meetings...
...show are many wood-panels of nymphs and Nationalistic God-heads. Moses appears in two forms: a bust and a full-length bronze of seething, impassioned aspect. In an era when it is fashionable to divorce art from religion and other such influences, Ivan Mestrovio, bred close to Croatian soil, retains much of the peasants' religious awe; infuses his sculpture with that spirit...
Most Serbians and many Slovenes write a queer, quaint alphabet, the Cyrillic. Himself a Serb, King Alexander knows that it is hard to change over to the Latin alphabet used by U. S. citizens and all his Croatian subjects. But just now His Majesty is launched on a passionate campaign of national unification (TIME, Oct. 14). Therefore he announced last week that he would shortly suppress Cyrillic by royal and dictatorial decree...
...pistol coolly aimed by Deputy Punica Ratchitch. Each bullet found a man and brought him down, wounding four, killing two. Paul Raditch, nephew of Stefan and father of seven, was one of those who died. Stefan Raditch crumpled with a bullet in his stomach. Fifty days later, in Zagreb, Croatian Capital, he died. That was last summer. To Croats, still, the name Raditch means Hero and Martyr. They gather in thousands to cry "Zhivoi Raditch! (Hail Raditch!)." Impatiently have they waited to be avenged...
Unhappy Croats had another reason to be bitter last week. Seven governing committee members of the Croatian Peasants Party, including Martyr Raditch's successor, Dr. Matchek, left an anti-Belgrade-dictatorship demonstration at Zagreb, were arrested, taken to Belgrade for incarceration...