Word: jugoslavia
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Prince Paul of Jugoslavia...
...with the heaviest siege guns in Central Europe, were ready for the first nation that started something. Viennese knew that the Czech frontier is only 25 miles away, that one of the great Skoda guns could blow the steeple off St. Stephen's without crossing the border. In Jugoslavia to the south whole divisions of Serbian troops had been moved up into Slovenia and Croatia and set to patrolling the frontier...
...than the addition of 7,000,000 souls to the German Reich. It means that: 1) French-supported Czechoslovakia would be surrounded by Nazi land on three sides; 2) Germany would come down to the Brenner Pass and be only 100 miles from the Adriatic; 3) German minorities in Jugoslavia's Slovenia and Croatia would receive all the backing that Austrian Nazis have had; 4) Hungary and Rumania would be the next objects of Nazi attack...
...visit. Louis Adamic became again Loyze Adamich. His Uncle Mikha gave him a dressing-down for not writing oftener to his mother. Uncle Yanez put off dying until he had seen his traveled nephew. Cousin Toné asked him to be groomsman at his wedding. Before Adamic had left Jugoslavia it was nearly time for him to be godfather to Toné's firstborn...
...wife set off to see the country, went the whole circuit. Everywhere Adamic found himself a famed figure, soon was hearing legends about himself and "Mr. Gugnhaim," an immensely rich U. S. tycoon who had chosen Adamic to make an exhaustive report on the true state of affairs in Jugoslavia, would then set all things right. Adamic, discovering plenty of things that needed setting to rights, says flatly that King Alexander's Government is a grinding dictatorship, that Jugoslavian jails hold thousands of political prisoners, that if he had not been exceedingly circumspect he would have had no chance...