Word: jugoslavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week did France bury her great Foreign Minister, Louis Barthou. All the diplomats who stood bareheaded under the grey sky, all the regiments that marched past the flag-draped gun carriage, all the black crowd that stretched away for blocks had but one idea: Louis Barthou and Alexander of Jugoslavia would not have been shot down last fortnight in Marseilles if police had taken proper precautions;* Louis Barthou would not have died if a flustered bystander had placed the temporary tourniquet above instead of below the wound in his arm. Premier Doumergue pronounced the funeral oration: "Lift up your hearts...
...settled back to its usual existence last week, after the exciting thought that the pale little boy of 11, the one with the bangs and the bony knees, had suddenly become a King, and for a moment the most spotlighted person in the world. Before breakfast Peter II of Jugoslavia was hauled from his dormitory bed and brought down to the headmaster's office. His old tutor, a man named Parrott, was there too. The boy learned that his father had had a serious automobile accident, that he must go up to London at once. He packed...
...Peter," said she. "your father is dead. His enemies killed him in Marseilles. Now you are the King of Jugoslavia. Never forget that your father died like a king. His duty is now your duty. His work is your work. To do those things for which he gave his life must be your constant...
That night the royal party set off for Belgrade and home. At Innsbruck one reporter was allowed to board the special train. He learned from Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania that Dowager Queen Marie of Jugoslavia was a very sick woman. Besides the gallstones from which she has been suffering in recent weeks, she had painfully ulcerated teeth...
...must forget the past," said Father Koroshetz. "We must work and live for Jugoslavia...