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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...
Only Argentina has a President like Hipólito Irigoyen. In Buenos Aires last week six policemen pumped bullets into the limp body of an Italian assassin, called world attention to Argentina's President...
...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...
...Prince Umberto of Italy riding in a Brussels street at the moment when an anti-Fascist took a shot at him (TIME, Nov. 4). You heard the shot, saw the crowd swerve to pounce on the assassin. You saw the young Prince, his face tight as a drum, proceed to lay a wreath on a monument as though nothing had happened...