Word: croats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beginning of the election campaign (TIME, Feb. 23), Premier Pashitch had Stefan Raditch arrested and his Croatian People's Party (Republican) declared illegal as a step to increase his (Pashitch's) majority. The Croat Republicans, however, were elected under new party names...
Momtchilo Nintchitch traveled from Paris to Belgrade, arriving in the latter capital in time to see the horny hand of Premier Pashitch throttle the Croat and Slovene autonomists...
...aged Premier ordered the dissolution of the Croat Republican Party, the arrest of all leaders of that party and of the Slovene autonomists -two of the principal forces which, with the Montenegrine autonomists, oppose the centralist policy of the Serbians. The Army was held ready to quell disturbers of the peace, the police force was fully mobilized, the atmosphere was tinged with excited expectancy...
Premier Pashitch showed once again his formidable "iron fist." By order of the Government, the three YugoSlavian Universities were nationalized. Trouble started when several Croat professors at the Croatian University at Zagreb (Agram) were pensioned off. Students went on strike. A few days later, students of the Ljubliana (Liabach) University struck. In the capital, at Belgrade University, a strike was also declared. A gun fight ensued between the students and the gendarmes-10 of the former, five of the latter were wounded. In the western limits of the Kingdom, a mighty shout went up from Croat and Slovene throats...
...Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, presided and affixed his signature for Great Britain. The order of signing was alphabetical: Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain (here the five British Dominions signed: Australia, Canada, Irish Free State, New Zealand, Union of South Africa; also the Indian Empire), Italy, Japan, Serb-Croat-Slovene State (Yugo-Slavia). It was announced that the Experts' Plan was in effect as from Sept...