Word: croats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furious filibuster against the Government's proposal to sign with Italy the Treaty of Nettuno (TIME, June u). That document would facilitate the "peaceful penetration" by Italian colonists of Dalmatia, which is adjacent to Croatia, the part of Jugoslavia from which Stefan Raditch hails. For three years Croat Raditch has blocked the treaty, driving the Jugoslav government to their wit's ends, since they are under heaviest pressure from Signor Mussolini to sign...
...furious climax of the filibuster last week Croat Raditch paused, surveyed the government deputies with a blazing glance and roared: "You are not men! YOU ARE SWINE...
...bench leaped Deputy Punica Ratchitch, a nobody. Whipping out an automatic pistol, he leveled the blue-steel barrel at the leader of the opposition. "I'm going to shoot Raditch," he cried. "I'll shoot anyone who tries to stop me!" Instantly four ranking officials of the Croat Peasant Party rushed to fling themselves between the pistol and their leader. The secretary of the party stopped the assassin's first bullet. The vice president of the party, a popular Croatian author, took the second. The third and fourth were stopped with no less honor and heroism...
...King Alexander decides that, for the first time, he will call to the Premiership a statesman outstanding in the ranks of the "minority peoples" who cluster around the parent kingdom of Serbia.* His Majesty, not without guile, calls to the Premiership that fiery Croat, famed, boisterous, bibulous Stefan Raditch. The King, whose power is rooted in Serbia, knows that so erratic and frequently boozy a statesman will not lead the "minorities" into a commanding position...
...usual when Croat Raditch erupts, the Italian Government protested vigorously and Premier Uzunovitch of Jugoslavia apologized abjectly...