Word: jugoslavia
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...ordered three U. S. destroyers to Cuban waters "to protect the lives and persons of American citizens," announced that his Government had no intention of intervention. ¶ President Roosevelt transferred another career diplomat when he appointed white-crested Charles Stetson Wilson, now Minister to Rumania, to be Minister to Jugoslavia. ¶ After a week in Washington, President Roosevelt planned to return to Hyde Park to finish his vacation. Over Labor Day week-end he would cruise back to the Capital aboard Vincent Astor's big white Nourmahal...
...promptly claimed that this "spiritual nation" will not stop at the frontiers of the Reich. "After the Constitution of the Evangelical Church of the German Nation has been acknowledged," crowed the Nazi Kreiiz Zeitung, "the Evangelical Church of Austria will belong to it and the Evangelical churches of Transylvania, Jugoslavia, the Baltic regions and lands across the sea will be able to conclude working agreements with this really German Evangelical Church...
Next day this definition was signed all over again in a special regional pact between Russia, Turkey and the "Little Entente" (Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugoslavia). By many London observers Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, sponsor of the nonaggression treaties, was thought to loom as a new leader in Eastern Europe, the champion of the "Little Entente" and Poland against possible German aggression. In Warsaw, where every Pole hates & fears Adolf Hitler, relieved Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck exclaimed: "This is a most important political act - a great step toward organization of world peace!" Farsighted Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinov...
...sought new business, but waited, as befitted the banking house second only to J. P. Morgan & Co., for clients to come to it. Denouncing cut throat competition for bond issues, he declared that once "in those mad years [1926-28]'' 15 U. S. bankers were in Belgrade. Jugoslavia, participating in "an undignified scramble'' for an issue. "There were times," he said, "when a dozen were in Central . . . and Latin American states outbidding each other in a foolish, reckless search for business." "Was your bank represented at Belgrade?" asked Senator Costigan. "It was not," snapped Partner Kahn...
...organized the Little Entente bloc of Rumania, Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, whose unified foreign policy faces the world so successfully at Geneva that, coming to London as their spokesman, Benes will rank as the representative of a Great Power with Britain, France, the U. S., Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia. There are at least a dozen Latin American countries whose views on foreign trade coincide quite as closely as those of the Little Entente. The Scandinavian countries form another group with Belgium and Holland. Should they form working combines even half as efficient as the Little Entente, and there is much evidence...