Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home by way of Italy, visiting the tomb of his parents at Florence. However, as soon as George II felt himself to be really King and had $200,000 in his pocket, he emphatically challenged General Kondylis' plans, proposed instead that he sail around Italy, land at the Yugoslav port of Split and visit, en route to Athens, his cousin, the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul. Nervously the British Foreign Office hinted to George II that there was no need to heighten the British-Italian tension by making an issue of visiting a country where his parents' bodies...
...first significance that Bulgaria's Queen loanna is the daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele and that her husband, popular little Tsar Boris III, is inclined to be pro-Italian. A year and a half ago a Bulgarian Army clique which is strongly pro-Yugoslav and pro-French staged a coup d'état and made Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff Premier (TIME, May 21, 1934. et seq.). In April 1935 Boris found a split in the Army clique, edged it out of power and put in his present Premier, the 70-year-old botanist, Andrew Tosheff, under...
...Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul, has developed Nazi leanings and chose M. Stoyadinovitch to be Premier for the purpose of shifting Yugoslavian policy a few points away from Paris and several points nearer Berlin. "Beware!" warned Rebel Pribitchevitch. "The main condition imposed by Germany for co-operation would be Yugoslav acceptance of Austro-German union, which would make Germany our country's neighbor. Germany would obtain hegemony in Central Europe and the Balkans and only a crazy man could believe that Germany would halt at our border. She would continue her march to the Adriatic and Saloniki and Yugoslavia...
Meanwhile hapless Ethiopia last week had made friends out of Yugoslavia and Italy, traditional foes. Needing grain to feed the Italian troops now embarking for Africa, Premier Benito Mussolini is placing huge grain orders in Yugoslavia. At the port and frontier city of Susak, where Italian and Yugoslav guards with fixed bayonets have glared at each other for years across barbed wire entanglements, suddenly last week Yugoslavian wheat began to pour in a golden tide onto Italian ships, paid for with Il Duce's pegged-to-gold lire...
...Nicholas Murray Butler. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. Thomas Edison and the presentation to the school of a 90th Birthday Fund totaling nearly $5,000. Made up of hundreds of individual contributions, each was a multiple of 90, from 90? to $90. Mrs. B. Adjemovitch, wife of the Yugoslav Consul General at Salonika, went all the way to Belgrade to bring back special wax candles for the birthday cake. Beamed Dr. House: "The whole place seems to me as much like a miracle as possible when we remember what it was when we bought it. I never tire...