Word: jugoslavia
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...There is no great possibility of improving Italy's relations with Jugoslavia as long as journalistic polemics continue which wound us to the innermost core of our being. Nobody shall place in doubt the bravery of the Italian army...
...helped Stanley Baldwin to decide that Britain's frontier must be on the Rhine. In a brilliant swing around Europe he had kept the wavering Little Entente in France's pocket. His trip up the Danube was a triumphant progress ending in a rousing visit with King Alexander of Jugoslavia who was destined to die with him last week. He had advanced an Eastern Locarno Pact which would throw a "ring of steel" around Germany, and he even got France on trading terms with King Alexander's bitterest enemy Benito Mussolini...
Then in 1918 came his triumph. He saw his little Serbia swell to five times its original size, gobble Montenegro where he was born and slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria and become the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later Jugoslavia. In 1921 old King Peter died and Alexander was King at last. Very quickly Croats and Slovenes learned who were their masters...
Alexander of Jugoslavia trusted nobody, but at least he understood his neighbors, King Carol of Rumania and little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. For over a year, with the mounting threat of Nazi Germany and its dream of eastern expansion and the possibility of a Habsburg restoration in Austria, he attempted to arrange a meeting of all three Kings with their respective foreign ministers discreetly in the background. Always a new crisis in hectic Rumania had made the tripartite meeting impossible...
Paris, Oct. 12--Albest detectives of the French Surete Nationale tonight were engaged in tracking down members of an international murder syndicate, two of whom emissaries admitted today they were sent to France to Slay Alexander I, King of Jugoslavia...