Word: jugo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hungarian race favors the return of the Habsburg dynasty, not so much because it has any special love for that Royal House as because the return of the Royal House has been forbidden and its members proscribed by the Allies, particularly by the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugo-slavia...
That volcano of unrest in European politics, the Mediterranean district, has recently displayed unmistakable signs of increasing activity. To the three great Western countries, England, France, and Italy, who hold large stakes in the lands surrounding this inland sea, have been added the two Balkan states, Roumania and Jugo Slavia, who emerged into the Class B Power class after the World War and to a certain extent replaced in the politics of the Near East dismembered Austria and red Russia...
...Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria, have pushed the frontiers of empires further around the Southeastern shores of the Mediterranean. Italy, intent on the Trentino and Trieste in 1919, received little in addition to disappointing Tripoli except the control of Fuime on the Adriatic. Furthermore the appearance of Roumania and Jugo-Slavia as something more than the petty Balkan princedoms of Moldavia--Wallachia and Serbia gave her rivals more serious in many ways than Austria-Hungary had been. So the Peace of Versailles brought no peace to the Near East. Italy's interests traditionally demand her further expansion in the Adriatic...
Once the policy of imperialism is admitted right, the wisdom of England's latest move is thrown into sharp relief by the new obstacles strewn in Mussolini's path in the Aegean and Adriatic by Roumania and Jugo-Slavia, obstacles well calculated to turn the attention of the Quirinal toward Egypt. The hand of France opposes Italy here no less infallibly than England elsewhere for its being hidden behind the foreign offices of Bucharest and Belgrade. Co-incident yesterday with the return to power of the Bratiano, French controlled, anti-Italian government, after a month's exile, comes news...
...infrignes. Well enough does Zogu recollect the day in 1924 and 1925 when he himself was a refugee hiding in the fastness of the Albanian mountains waiting his chance to strike. Finally it came, and crossing the frontier at the head of an army composed of Mohammedan tribesmen and Jugo-Slavian soldiers he defeated Fan Noli and his hastily gathered army, and entered Tirana, the capital as prime minister...