Word: jugoslavia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Events strikingly revealed, last week, that Jugoslavia's 12,000,000 citizens are now quietly despotized by one man? their King. The nation was faced with a problem which most people would refer to their Parliament. But the King has abolished Parliament (TIME, Jan. 14). He has suspended the constitution. Therefore it was Alexander who decided of his sole volition, last week, that Jugoslavia should ratify the Kellogg-Briand peace pact renouncing war (TIME, July...
...Even in the U. S., where the pact was conceived, it was put through only after a hot fight in the Senate. But at Belgrade the pact was ratified in a few seconds, when Jugoslavia's Dictator-King dashed onto a royal decree his sprawling: "ALEXANDER...
Unquestionably the trip to Paris, where King Alexander conferred secretly with that stern greybeard Prime Minister Raymond Poincare, marked the turning-point in the royal career. Jugoslavia is the "little ally" of France, and the statesmen at Paris have been repeatedly vexed by the notorious instability of the Parliament in Belgrade?an instability which became anarchy last summer when the leader of the opposition, Stefan Raditch, was assassinated on the floor of the House (TiME, July 2). Apparently M. Poincaré recommended the kill-or-cure panacea known as a military dictatorship. King Alexander, assured of French backing, went home...
...dictature set up in Jugoslavia last fortnight by King Alexander and General Petar Zivkovitch, Commander of the Royal Guards (TIME, Jan. 14) assumed, last week, the powers of Absolutism, if not Despotism...
Local Reaction. Throughout Jugoslavia chambers of commerce, banks, business houses and petty officeholders wrote and" wired their approval to King Alexander until over 21,000 paeans of loyalty piled up in the white stone palace at Belgrade...