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Hitler's myriad executioners sometimes operated abroad. One early victim was Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, killed in 1934 by Austrian Nazis. A Croatian secret society called the Ustachis, with possible assistance from Mussolini's and Hitler's governments, killed French Foreign Minister Jean Louis Barthou and King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Marseille...
...endangered rather than a dangerous individual. A jittery French government could not help remembering that the last visit to France of a Yugoslav head of state, in 1934, had ended in the assassination in Marseille of both Yugoslavia's King Alexander and France's Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, who was riding with...
...briefly joined De Gaulle's Committee of National Liberation. One of his most famous adventures was in 1934 in Marseille, when a Croat assassin attacked the car in which he was riding with Yugoslavia's King Alexander, killed the King (and France's Foreign Minister, Louis Barthou), wounded Georges while he tried to shield the King...
Both the leaders of France during the thirties and the main movements within the country will be analyzed. Such men as Laval, Barthou and Gamelin, such movements as the Blum government and the internal disunity of the country, will be under discussion...
King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou were murdered at Marseille in 1934 by a professional assassin whose Italian connections were carefully hushed. Two years ago British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Hugessen was machine-gunned and dangerously wounded by a Japanese plane. During the Spanish Civil War "pirate" submarines torpedoed British and French merchantmen. If an incident were needed to start a war, the world has recently had plenty of them...