Word: jigsaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Croats and Slovenes looking carefully at the new map saw at once why King Alexander was willing to return to parliamentary government. Skillful jigsaw work had shaped the new states so as to split each of Jugoslavia's troublesome racial minorities. Six of the nine Banats contain a sizeable majority of Serbs. Especially vexed were the Croatians, noisiest and most troublesome of Jugoslavia's racial groups...
Alan Dale: ". . . . One of those jigsaw puzzle plays...