Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Serbia. In the elaborate neo-Byzantine Kara-Georgevitch family tomb on the hill of Oplenatz murdered Alexander of Jugoslavia, in his Austrian sarcophagus, will soon lie. From their catalog, Julius Maschner & Son chose the same model coffin as those they recently completed for former Chancellors Dollfuss and Seipel of Austria. All they had to do was remove the Roman crucifix from the lid and replace it with a Serbian Orthodox cross, applique the Jugoslav royal arms and a silver name plate. There were also a few minor adjustments to be made to be sure that it would...
...feel that they have been bilked of their due. The Kingdom that they thought they were joining, that of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, quickly became Jugoslavia, in which only the voice of Serbia could be heard. Bosnians, Herzegovinians, Slovenes found Serbia a far more brutal master than Austria-Hungary. Any effort to state national aspirations in public brought instant oppression, exile, often torture and assassination. From Serbia's point of view this policy worked for all the provinces but one. The Croats were not to be downed. They fought back, inside Jugoslavia...
...Germany Dean Pound discussed the current situation as well as the new movement in German law with German teachers of the University of Munich. In France he told the Paris Herald that "all those countries--Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy and the rest--are tired of internal bickering and will back up a man who can bring them freedom from agitating 'movements...
...flies. The party moved toward a line of shining automobiles. Cheering hoarsely the crowd strained against the tight rope of police and troops. King and Minister stepped into the fourth automobile and the line moved forward. It happened then almost exactly as it had happened to Franz Ferdinand of Austria on a hot July day in 1914 in Alexander's Serbia. Quick as a squirrel a nondescript youth ducked under the police line, leaped to the running board of the royal car. His pistol was scarcely an arm's length from the King as he began to fire...
...will remain largely titular. But that Archduke Otto had every intention of collecting in person was made evident last week in a letter he wrote to the peasant villages of Edelsgrub and Premstaetten, which recently made him an honorary citizen. Announcing again his desire to return from exile to Austria, he wrote...