Word: assassinations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read a memorial plaque, solemnly unveiled last week at ominous Serajevo. The letters of pure gold are deeply sunk in green marble. Pensively upon the stone broods the image of a frail young man. He proclaimed liberty by foully assassinating the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. But the World War which followed did liberate Serajevo from Austrian rule. Therefore to his people a foul assassin is a Hero (TIME...
...little learning has King Alexander of Jugoslavia as to what the rest of the world thinks of assassins. Shrewd, His Majesty ordered news of the Princip memorial suppressed, and when it leaked out commanded the Foreign Office to dismiss the Chief Censor. Frightened, stupid underlings at the Bureau of Censorship freely passed despatches telling how Dictator-King Alexander had almost succeeded in keeping the world ignorant that his people have glorified a deed doubly foul?for Assassin Princip slew not only the Heir of Austria but also His Royal Highness' morganatic wife, Sophie Countess Chotek, mother of two sons...
Every child in Serbia (now Jugoslavia) knows that Ferdinand Gavrillo Princip is the name of the young man from the province of Bosnia who, on June 28, 1914, assassinated the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, and thus kindled the World War. Last week an heroic statue in honor of the late Princip was carted into ominous Serajevo. Patriots made ready for the formal unveiling next week. Excited little girls wove wreaths and little boys practiced piping songs to honor the Great Assassin...
When the War started by Princip shattered Imperial Austria, his province of Bosnia with its capital Serajevo entered the new kingdom of "Greater Serbia" or Jugoslavia, and the Great Assassin seemed from the point of view of his people a pure hero. They tore out a wall tablet erected in mourning for the assassinated Archduke, replaced it with a laudatory tablet to Princip, surmounting his name with laurel wreaths. Protests from abroad caused the Jugoslavian Government to order the Princip tablet covered with a thin layer of plaster, the official position being that it has been obliterated, while the populace...
...middle of the street, fire once. President Irigoyen's chauffeur, quick-witted, sent the car zigzagging from curb to curb as the little man fired again and again. Other pistols banged in the bright sunlight. Members of the President's bodyguard were on all sides of the would-be assassin after his fifth shot. He dropped, then lay on the pavement while detectives and firemen closed in and sent 20 bullets crashing into his kicking, bleeding body till muscular reaction ceased. A block from the scene of the shooting the President's car stopped to let out two victims...