Word: croats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon King Alexander was able to confer with the politicians of all parties only to discover that no bas' or community of interests existed on which to found a new government. The situation had grown steadily worse since the assassination of Croat leader Stefan Raditch in Parliament (TIME, July 28) and last week the numerous Croatian deputies clamored furiously for local autonomy, demanding for Croatia a sort of "dominion status" under the crown at Belgrade. Since King Alexander is no Croat but a Serbian he was exceeding vexed. After two days and nights of consultation His Majesty's patience with...
...Alexander was in Jugoslavia; Dentist Smith in France. Court Dentist Kostich performed an operation on King Alexander's wisdom tooth. King Alexander, therefore, postponed consultations on his kingdom's political situation, which, as everyone knows, is perilous as a result of the assassination of the late famed Croat-leader Stefan Raditch (TIME...
...hearse of Stefan Raditch, walked, according to the lowest cabled estimates, slightly over 1% of the population of Jugoslavia.* At the climax of this prodigious demonstration, a wreath of thorns was laid upon the grave. From the wreath dangled, on a golden wire, the Serbian bullet which killed Croat Raditch...
...king of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes rules three major peoples and several minor, despite the fact that all are lumped together as "Jugoslavia." Last week. King Alexander incensed his Croats to fury by entrusting the task of forming a cabinet to a Slovene who promptly grouped about himself Serb ministers. The 800,000 Croats in the U. S. echoed Croat Publicist Stanko Hranilovich when he_ declared in Manhattan last week: "Since 1918 the Croats of Jugoslavia have been oppressed and terrorized by the Serbs. . . . Croatian schools have been closed and now Croatian children are taught that they are Serbs...
...wounded men, only two died last week, of whom one was Paul Raditch. The great Stefan Raditch lay in hospital, visited twice daily by King Alexander, and from Vienna flew famed Diabetic Specialist Dr. Gustav Singer-for Croat Raditch suffers from diabetes and a bullet in the stomach is poor medicine. After a thorough examination, Dr. Gustav Singer said that the patient might survive...