Word: jugoslavia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Independence Day in Jugoslavia...
Sometime after the sale, a Viennese dealer called upon Dealer Demotte, told him of a diptych he had seen in the treasury of Zagreb Cathedral in Jugoslavia...
Last week Minister Pitamitz sped by motor from Washington to Cleveland. There the Museum authorities received him with great formality. Ceremoniously they gave the diptych back to Jugoslavia...
Last week a royal decree of spectacled Dictator-King Alexander changed the name of his country from The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, to The Kingdom of Jugoslavia. More vital to most Jugoslavians was another decree issued by King Alexander almost simultaneously. It looked forward to an imminent end of the royal dictatorship established on Christmas Day, 1928 (TIME, Jan. 14) and a return to parliamentary government. It altered the entire map of Jugoslavia by dividing the country into nine Banats or states, each Banat governed by a Banus appointed by the King. Historic names like Croatia...
Croats and Slovenes looking carefully at the new map saw at once why King Alexander was willing to return to parliamentary government. Skillful jigsaw work had shaped the new states so as to split each of Jugoslavia's troublesome racial minorities. Six of the nine Banats contain a sizeable majority of Serbs. Especially vexed were the Croatians, noisiest and most troublesome of Jugoslavia's racial groups...