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...something. Viennese knew that the Czech frontier is only 25 miles away, that one of the great Skoda guns could blow the steeple off St. Stephen's without crossing the border. In Jugoslavia to the south whole divisions of Serbian troops had been moved up into Slovenia and Croatia and set to patrolling the frontier...
...souls to the German Reich. It means that: 1) French-supported Czechoslovakia would be surrounded by Nazi land on three sides; 2) Germany would come down to the Brenner Pass and be only 100 miles from the Adriatic; 3) German minorities in Jugoslavia's Slovenia and Croatia would receive all the backing that Austrian Nazis have had; 4) Hungary and Rumania would be the next objects of Nazi attack...
...week, caused to be secretly circulated around Belgrade a book called King Alexander's Dictatorship. In this book Svetozar Pribitchevitch accuses His Majesty of planning a "desperate expedient" to save his Crown, nothing less than the "amputation" of that part of Jugoslavia which is fullest of troublemakers, namely Croatia...
What King Alexander thinks should become of amputated Croatia, Svetozar Pribitchevitch did not reveal. His other "revelations"-true or false-caused a terrific Belgrade sensation, set many citizens of the Capital to vowing that they had a "traitor King." According to a telephoned despatch from Belgrade which eluded censorship: "His Majesty suffered last night from a three-hour nervous collapse brought on by fear of assassination...
...elective, will serve four years. Jugoslavia remains divided into the new provinces or Banats. a clever scheme of King Alexander's to break up the old racial groups (TIME, Oct. 14, 1929). But the Governors of the Banats will be given greatly increased powers. Ever-protesting Croatia will resume its old boundaries, with the exception of the old county of Sypmia which continues to be split be tween Neusatz and Nisch. Communists may not organize. Military officers in active service may not run for office. By the next morning excited citizens all over the country were staring at blue...