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Greater than that great Croatian statesman Svetozar Pribitchevitch (see above) was memorable Stefan Raditch. When drunk this tubby Croat caroused like a wild walrus. When sober and not occupied with affairs of state he kept a bookstore in Zagreb. Drunk or sober Stefan Raditch could set the voters of Croatia on fire as no one else could. As leader of the Opposition he was foully shot down in the Jugoslavian Parliament by a Government Deputy (TIME, July 2, 1928). In Paris last week Croat Raditch's son, Vladimir Raditch, won his academic degree at the school of Higher Social...
...June 20, 1928," he said, "a Serb Deputy, Punica Ratchitch, while the Chamber was sitting, drew a revolver from his pocket and fired five shots at the Croat Deputies. My cousin, Paul Raditch, convinced that the Serb wanted to kill my father, threw himself upon him but fell dead, shot in the head. My father rose, with his old friend Grandzsa by his side. Punica Ratchitch continued to fire and my father fell, together with Grandzsa and another Croat named Peruar. Taken to a hospital my father died a few weeks later, both from his wounds and from poison administered...
While reporters typed stories of this happy birthday, came other more sinister reports. In changing the title of his country from "The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes" to the "Kingdom of Jugoslavia," Dictator-King Alexander has set boiling afresh a stew of acute racial feeling. In the Cathedral at Zagreb a sharp-eared sacristan discovered a ticking bomb timed to explode during the King's birthday mass. Railway employes fished a 60-lb. bomb off the tracks of the Zagreb-Belgrade railroad just before the special train of a royalist delegation was due to pass. In Zagreb railway...
...into Dalmatia by Italian colonists was being fiercely attacked by Stefan Raditch, Croatian leader of the Opposition. Leader Raditch, a gypsy, a lover of freedom, saw in the impending "penetration" the dangerous colonizing hand of Benito Mussolini, whose land is just across the Adriatic from Dalmatia and neighboring Croatia. Croat Raditch shouted in furious, wild speech. Supporting him were the Dalmatian and Croatian deputies. Against him were lined the Serbs and Slovenes: the Government. Finally Croat Raditch roared in what was destined to be his valedictory: "You are not men! YOU ARE SWINE...
...uneasiness has been further augmented in recent days on account of numerous raids on Croat homes and by the fact that all our societies and associations, including choral and gymnastic ones, have been dissolved. This gives us the distinct impression that the new government is directed against...