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First battlefield appearance of Red Cross units was in the Dano-Prussian War of 1864. The Red Cross was respected as a protecting symbol for doctors, nurses, medical units in many later wars-the Austro-Prussian, the Franco-Prussian, the Russo-Japanese, the Balkan, the World War, in some Colonial wars, in a few civil wars. Not until 1935 did the first flagrant, consistent abuse of the Red Cross symbol occur. Then giant red crosses painted on Ethiopian hospitals became welcome targets for Italian airmen. Against this abuse, International Red Cross President Max Huber, former justice of The Hague...
...treason charge before a military tribunal of King Carol's officers. Charged with plotting to kidnap His Majesty and set up a Fascist state with himself as Führer and Adolf Hitler as an ally, Leader Codreanu was found guilty, sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Balkan justice being what it is, Leader Codreanu was considered to have got off lightly. In the complex fabric of Balkan politics, however, the sentence did mean that King Carol was taking no nonsense from Nazis or Nazi friends...
...clearly enough that Octavian Goga could no longer conceivably win the Rumanian election scheduled for March. Everyone else in Rumania saw this too, and although only a few thought the King had "planned it that way," none was surprised when Carol II dismissed Premier Goga with curt, characteristic Balkan ruthlessness, abruptly snapping: "I want your resignation...
Julius Nagy-Apponyi of Budapest. Through the jagged mountains of Albania their daughter Geraldine was taken to Tirana, a typically odorous, turbulent Balkan capital...
...understands nothing; and when he knows nothing he understands everything. ... To exploit the natives of every country is for the Greek an atavistic dream. . . . For the Greeks alone have known how to worst the Jews." The resulting Greek portrait may seem to Occidentals as confusing and contradictory as Balkan activities generally, may also constitute a tribute to the author's honesty...