Word: greek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years 4,000,000 Roman Catholic Croats in the North have done their best to sabotage the Government run largely in the interest of the 6,500,000 Greek Orthodox and Moslem Serbs in the South. Croats and Serbs have never got along well together. Besides their religious differences, the Croats consider the Serbs uncultured barbarians. They complain that their old agreements with the Serbs for self-government, fair taxation and civil liberties were abrogated by a dictatorial Serb Government. Their list of grievances - suppression, little education, commercial exploitation - is long. They have loudly demanded autonomy; and, agitating...
This solution, it was reported, will divide Yugoslavia into three autonomous provinces: 1) the Dalmatian coast, Croatia in the northwest; 2) central Bosnia, where dwell a confusion of Moslem, Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Serbs and Croats; 3) southeastern Serbia. Each section will have separate self-governing administrations for local affairs; the three provinces will remain united by a common throne and a central Government which retains ultimate control of finances, defense, foreign relations. Creation of provincial diets, because of constitutional limitations, must wait until King Peter comes of age. It was a nice settlement; big question mark was whether...
Every schoolboy knows that Socrates was an influential Greek educator who was condemned to drink hemlock for "corrupting" Athens' youth. For 2,300 years Socrates has been pictured, on the strength of Plato's description of him, as a highborn philosopher who lived ascetically, spent his time asking searching questions of Athenians in the market place, showed up the Greek Sophists, avoided politics and was eventually martyred by an ignorant mob for teaching his pupils idealistic notions of justice and authority...
Professor Winspear spent several years investigating that past by combing the works of other Greek writers. His conclusion: Socrates was a turncoat, a radical in youth, in old age a conservative who undermined Greek democracy. The professor's account...
Last year Rumania's State church, the Greek Orthodox, had temporal power with a vengeance: its Patriarch Miron Cristea was King Carol's puppet Premier. Patriarch Cristea did not resist an impulse to crack down on Protestant sects. His device was simple. He had his Minister of Cults decree that no congregation could hold public services unless at least 100 heads of families belonged...