Word: jugoslavia
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Nearly 100,000 peasants brought up the procession's rear in such native costumes as few countries besides Jugoslavia can produce. Her peasants of Turkish blood still wear the fez now banned in Turkey. With them strode Bosnians in scarlet dress and Herzegovinian mountaineers carrying their rifles upside down in mourning. Montenegro sent her Jugoslavian Cossacks...
Bereaved Marie of Jugoslavia stood as long as she could the sight of her son King Peter standing bareheaded in the rain, perhaps catching his death of cold. When she could stand it no longer Her Majesty motioned His Majesty to put on his cap, a handsome Sokol cap with a feather...
Eight dignitaries of the Court and officers of Jugoslavia's fighting services carried the emblems of King Alexander's power, his sword, his sceptre, the orb and the Crown of Jugoslavia with which he was never crowned. Reason: Alexander wished to unify his troubled country first...
...procession moved off, Marie of Rumania gave out almost at once, had to be whisked off in the Ford. Marie of Jugoslavia, though suffering from gallstones and ulcerated teeth, trudged with visible effort the whole three miles. Young King Peter walked erect, alert but so closely surrounded by a protective square of Jugoslavian officers that at times he could not be seen...
...church with a crypt beneath for the royal Kara-Georgevitches, the descendants of Black George. Last week green lights burned in the crypt. When King Alexander's body, brought by train and motor hearse from Belgrade, was finally lowered to rest beside Black George, Dowager Queen Marie of Jugoslavia broke down completely and King Peter joined her sobs. Before that His Majesty had tried to comfort Her Majesty: "Mother, don't cry! Father is with...