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...Jugoslavia, all the U. S. was much more interested in the new Marshal of the Court appointed last week, Dr. Slavko Y. F. Grouitch, longtime Minister to Washington. In 1901 handsome Dr. Grouitch was Serbian Secretary at the Legation in Athens. Thither went the Gibson-Girlish Miss Mabel G. Dunlop of Clarksburg, W. Va. to study archeology. She met and married Dr. Grouitch...
...Mabel Grouitch is today the best known hostess in Jugoslavia. During the Balkan wars she toured the U. S. drumming up funds for the Serbian Red Cross. She maintained a military hospital in Belgrade, importing British nurses to staff it. During the World War she toured the U. S. again, raised $100,000 for Serbian relief. The Grouitches were intimate friends of assassinated King Alexander and of Queen Marie. Often they played bridge at the palace. When Their Majesties traveled abroad they often parked the present King Peter II and his brothers with the Grouitches. instead of leaving them...
...Jugoslavia's problems," said gracious Mabel Grouitch last week "are similar to those which confronted the United States after the Civil...
...conferred upon him recently the order of Saint Sava of the second class (Grand Officer), "in recognition of the valuable services rendered by him to the Serb-Croat-Slovine Nation," by His Royal Highness Prince Regent Alexander. The insignia of the order was bestowed upon him by S. G. Grouitch, the minister to the United States from that kingdom...
...Madame Grouitch's appeal for funds and supplies is being backed by a number of influential men in America. J. P. Morgan & Co., New York, are receiving subscriptions and are acting as agents for the newly-formed Serbian relief committee, the president of which is President Eliot...