Word: draga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...democratic remarks, he has appointed Leader of The White Hand General Zivkovitch his Prime Minister. How likely it is that this ruthless militarist will promote democracy appears from his dark record. He was the spruce young lieutenant charged with the personal safety of King Alexander Obrenovitch and Queen Draga, in 1903, when they were foully murdered in the royal bedroom of the old palace at Belgrade...
...Petersburg, and shortly after ward a page to his Tsaric majesty Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias. Presumably he did not know that Lieutenant Petar Zivkovitch was about to unlock, stealthily, a palace back door in Belgrade, and admit the assassin of Alexander Obrenovitch and Queen Draga. As a Karageorgevitch, however, Dictator-King Alexander can scarcely fail to see in this deed the hand of Divine (Greek Orthodox) Providence. So great indeed is his faith that, upon ascending the throne, he did not hesitate to make General Zivko vitch commander of the royal guard, a post which...
Serbia was the traditional Land of Assassinations. Most famed: the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Serajevo, the prelude to the World War. Most atrocious: the murder in their royal night clothes of King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia in 1903 by Serbian officers in the pay of Imperial Austria. Last week it seemed that although small Serbia no longer exists, having become large Jugoslavia, there has been a throwback to old-style Serbian assassination at Belgrade...