Word: serbian
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Phillips Brooks House collection of old clothes, books and magazines, shows that the drive was most successful. Some of the clothing will be distributed to the poor through the Morgan Memorial and the Cambridge Associated Charities. The remainder will be sent overseas by the Near East Relief and the Serbian Distress Committee...
...spite of Gabrielle d'Annuzio and his hair-brained followers, in spite of the elephantiasis of Serbian national pretensions, in spite of the various "unalterable stands:" determinedly held by various parties, common sense has prevailed in the Adriatic. Fiume will not form part of a new Roman Empire reaching from Gibraltar to the Hellespont. Nor will it form part of a Pan-Slavia extending from the White Sea to the Alps. Undoubtedly enthusiastic extremists on both sides will be bitterly and vociferously disappointed. But the world at large is thoroughly relieved over the ending of the impasse. A buffer state...
Serbia's history was likewise one to test the Imagination of students. Professor Coolidge piled incident upon incident to illustrate the unsettled times, featured by the Turks entering Europe, the Serbs passing under Turkish rule, Serbian immigration into Hungary and the Serbian wars of independence prior to 1876. Bosnia and Herzegovina were alluded to as "the meting ground between Serbs and Croats," and the settlements of the Congress of Berlin, with Austrian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina causing intense disappointment of the Serbs. Nevertheless, there was the Austrian alliance and its predominance in Serbia till the accession of Peter Kaigevyevich...
...almost all they seriously asked. The same thing is true regarding Bulgaria. The last bit of Bulgarian Macedonia has gone to Serbia. Without gong into the Macedonian question, one must say that in spite of the skillful historical and other arguments that have been put forth on the Serbian side, it is hard to dodge two facts. First, until ten years ago the great majority of foreign and unprejudiced travellers in or students of Macedonia regarded the Macedonian Slavs as Bulgars; second, rightly or wrongly, they felt so themselves, and their sympathies were accordingly that of the Bulgars...
After discussing the present alliance between Serbia and Greece, the questions of Skutari, Dalmatian and of Fiume, the pact of London, Italian occupation, of the armistice; the question of the Serbian ports, with much light thrown upon geography, nationality and history, Professor Coolidge spoke of the felling that exists between the Serbs and the Croats. The latter look on themselves as much more cultured and western, but are willing to be united with the Serbs without domination by them. The Serbs likewise fell a superiority in that they have fought and suffered and freed the others whom they sometimes look...