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...tastes Prince Paul is a far cry from his peasant ancestor Karageorge who started the family career upward as an apprentice to a Turkish brigand. Of nine rulers in Belgrade in the last century only three died natural deaths at their posts. King Alexander I, assassinated in Marseille by Croatian zealots in 1934 was Paul's first cousin. Alexander's son, the present King Peter, is thus a first cousin once removed of Prince Paul...
...minority. At that time Yugoslavia was still pretty much in the political orbit of War-victorious France. The shadow of a renascent, threatening Germany was beginning to fall over the Balkans, however, and neighboring Fascist Italy had never been too friendly with Yugoslavia. In fact, accomplices of the Croatian desperadoes who killed Alexander were subsequently harbored in Italy. And Yugoslavia drastically reduced her Italian trade when the League of Nations voted sanctions in the Ethiopian...
...scholars, Viadimir and Dinko Foretic of Viovitica, Jugoslavia, are compiling an anthology of writings in all languages about "Mother" to be translated into the Serbo-Croatian tongue. "We have no doubt," they say, "that poets in your country have also written beautiful poetry about Mother," and they request that the Harvard faculty aid them in their task by selecting some of the best American efforts. They ask for at least 15 and no more than 30 poems as well as five short stories...
...wall, opposite the Crucifixion. Under a black, apocalyptic sky, a young miner lies on ground covered with coal rubble. Weeping women in violet robes at his head and feet avert their eyes as a group of men with picks descend into a smoky middle background. A headline of the Croatian newspaper on which the dead miner is sprawled reads: "The Immigrant Mother Raises Her Sons for American Industry...
Awarded. To Nikola Tesla, famed Croatian-born inventor of electrical equipment (Tesla induction motor, Tesla coil, Tesla transformer): Yugoslavia's Grand Order of the White Eagle and Czechoslovakia's Order of the White Lion, top honors of those two nations; by their U. S. Ministers; on Dr. Tesla's 80th (or 81st) * birthday, in Manhattan. As is his birthday custom, Dr. Tesla received the press and announced a series of new marvels, including an apparatus "by which energy in considerable amounts can now be flashed through interstellar space"-but no models, no drawings, no equations...