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Assassin Ratchitch, whom no government deputy had seized from behind, put his fifth bullet with crack marksmanship into the stomach of Stefan Raditch, who crumpled as though felled...
...Skupshtina or Parliament of Jugoslavia at Belgrade last week the leader of the Opposition, famed Stefan Raditch, was directing a furious filibuster against the Government's proposal to sign with Italy the Treaty of Nettuno (TIME, June u). That document would facilitate the "peaceful penetration" by Italian colonists of Dalmatia, which is adjacent to Croatia, the part of Jugoslavia from which Stefan Raditch hails. For three years Croat Raditch has blocked the treaty, driving the Jugoslav government to their wit's ends, since they are under heaviest pressure from Signor Mussolini to sign...
Although "swine" is almost the favorite epithet bandied in Balkan parliaments, its use by squat, choleric Stefan Raditch for perhaps the one thousandth time in his life produced an astounding effect...
...their leader. The secretary of the party stopped the assassin's first bullet. The vice president of the party, a popular Croatian author, took the second. The third and fourth were stopped with no less honor and heroism by M. Josip Grandja and M. Paul Raditch, nephew of Stefan, who had been farthest from the carnage when it began...
Volpone. When the Theatre Guild wanted to play Ben Jonson's sardonic comedy, they chose to retranslate the German version recently effected by Stefan Zweig. Their choice was wise. As rewritten by an up-to-date European, Author Jonson's somewhat mechanical morality becomes a gleeful and raucous farce, lacking the solemnity of a classic and imbued instead with precisely the caustic and colloquial violence which it had for its original audiences...