Word: jugoslavia
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...Bucharest the visiting royalty were rushed through the city proper and out to the suburban Cotroceni Palace. There Tsar Boris and King Carol slipped head phones on their ears and called up King Alexander of Jugoslavia, 250 miles away in Belgrade. Alexander, who plays the game of France and is encouraged by her to play the Dictator in Jugoslavia, had just the day before broken one premier and made another. The secret telephone conference of the three kings was supposed to prepare public opinion for a pact tying up all three Balkan kingdoms with Czechoslovakia, Greece and Turkey...
...because he disliked the U. S. or was disillusioned about U. S. civilization, but because he wanted to see what the old country looked like after 19 years, Louis Adamic went back to Jugoslavia in 1932. The Guggenheim Foundation paid his way as a U. S. author for a year's "creative writing." Adamic had not intended to spend much time in his native country, much less write a book about it, but he ended by doing both. The Native's Return, something between a travel diary and a guide book, is better than most such journalistic accounts...
...folks. He thought of himself as completely "Americanized." But almost at the first sight of the Dalmatian coast his forgotten language came back with a rush. In Trieste a Slovene official bade him a ceremonious welcome home, showed him newspapers bursting with his praises. In Jugoslavia, especially in his little native province of Carniola, Adamic was almost a national hero. Puzzled at first, he sensibly decided the fuss-&-feathers was due partly to Slovene patriotism, partly to the fact that he was a writer...
...married off a sloe-eyed daughter of Italian King Vittorio-Emanuele III to earnest Tsar Boris of Bulgaria, France and her "Little Entente" Allies have been working to counteract Il Duce's supposed influence on the Bulgarian Court. Both Little Entente kings-Carol of Rumania and Alexander of Jugoslavia-have been courting Boris. A "Three-Kings Conference" of Boris, Carol and Alexander is in prospect at Sofia on Jan. 31, the day after Boris's next birthday. Last week the Tsar of the Bulgars took his Italian-born Tsaritsa to Jugoslavia to break a slava cake. Fifty years...
...already confused skein of Balkan politics has been further tangled by the announcement that a four power pact including Greece, Turkey, Roumania, and Jugoslavia is contemplated and that, in anticipation of this, preliminary conversations have taken place. This has followed two years of hectic activity by Balkan diplomats during which the alliance commitments of the different states have changed as rapidly, as unexpectedly, and as inexplicably as a Cambridge winter...