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...hours the Chief Regent tried to find a statesman who could swing this ticklish job. He failed last week and was finally obliged to call back smouldering Uzunovitch. As Premier, Uzunovitch retained pro-French Foreign Minister Bogoljub Jeftitch and acquired a notable War Minister, General Pera Zivkovitch who was Dictator of Jugoslavia from...
...took the oath of office last week, listened to a great funeral oration from Premier Uzunovitch while Deputies roared out "Slavu Mu! Glory to Him!" at every mention of the dead King. Eyes kept turning from the pale Prince Regent to another figure behind him. grizzled, bristling General Pera Zivkovitch, by tradition the man who let the murderers of Alexander Obrenovitch into the royal palace, virtual dictator for three years under Alexander of Jugoslavia, the strongest, the most hated man in the kingdom, and as Commander of the Royal Guard, proprietor of a well-drilled, well-equipped army-within...
...Alexander made himself Dictator of his country.* For Prime Minister he remembered the man who is said to have opened the door to the palace murderers years before. In 1932. mounting public protest forced King Alexander to remove the hated General Zivkovitch from the Premiership...
...docile Cabinet of Alexander, the Dictator King who looks like a dentist, and his big-jowled Premier General Pera Zivkovitch assembled hurriedly at the summer palace last week. King Alexander, sober behind his glittering pince-nez, told them that his three-year Dictatorship was at an end (TIME, Jan. 14, 1929 et seq.). Before the Ministers had recovered from their astonishment. Minister of the Court Jevtitch stood up and read them Jugoslavia's new Constitution. This document was evolved by no convention. It is the handiwork of shrewd King Alexander himself. Points...
Reporters cast a speculative eye last week at General Pera Zivkovitch. King Alexander's permanent Premier. Wilhelm of Hohenzollern used to refer to Belgrade as "that nest of assassins." No one has ever accused him openly, but it is a well-known Belgrade legend that 28 years ago Lieut. Pera Zivkovitch was the young officer who unlocked a back door in the palace of his Sovereigns, King Alexander Obrenovitch & Queen Draga, and let in the assassins who killed them in their sleep, thus allowing King Peter I, Alexander's father, to ascend the throne...