Word: bosnia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incident. . . . War in Europe this year or next will be the result of accident, not of design. What is more likely to come than early hostilities is another series of incidents like those that preceded the World War. Thus between 1905 and 1914 Europe moved from Tangier to Bosnia, from Bosnia to Agadir, and from Agadir to Sarajevo. . . . Europe is consciously and visibly headed for war. . . ." But need the U. S. become involved? Yes. says Author Simonds. because "Mr. Roosevelt's foreign policy ... is identical with Mr. Wilson's." The Author, unlike many of his colleagues...
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...