Word: serajevo
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...News of the Archduke's assassination at Serajevo and the even more upsetting death of the proprietor break up a normally jolly evening in a Viennese brothel...
...curtain raiser to the big show, gave both Austria and Russia the dangerous feeling that each had sacrificed more power and prestige than the other. Author Wolff does not believe that the War was inevitable. If Germany had not let Austria have her head in dealing with Serbia after Serajevo, if news of Serbia's satisfactory reply to Austria's ultimatum had not been suppressed for three crucial days-in short, if Germany had not taken too long a gambling chance for the sake of bluffing her opponents, peace might have been preserved. Author Wolff absolves plain Europeans...
There may be little danger of such involvement in the present affair. Nevertheless, since observers predict more and tenser crises in the future, the state department must school itself to true neutrality. This may be merely a preliminary episode; but if and when a new Serajevo develops, good advice will be fatal. Perhaps even the most careful diplomacy will not then be able to prevent our participation, but it is certain that pious wishes cannot...
...Serajevo last year Jugoslav patriots unveiled a tablet honoring Patriot Princip on the scene of his crime (TIME, Feb. 3 & 17, 1930). Gallant Major Tankositch fell in battle during the Serbian retreat from Belgrade...
...scandal of all Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand married his Sophie. Later they were assassinated together at Serajevo. Whispers have it that implacable Archduchess Isabella's comment on the crime which started the World War was: "It served them right...