Word: jugo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who saw in the recent settlement of the Hungarian-Jugo-Slavian affair the beginning of a new era in international politics should be interested by an item in yesterday's newspapers dealing with the equally fascinating, although less important, quarrel between Italy and Abyssinia. These reports announced that, in a statement apparently signed by Premier Mussolini himself, the Italian government had refused arbitration, maintaining that the case was one of pure aggression on the part of the Ethiopians. This statement has a certain whimsical humor, suggesting an image of the Roman eagle fighting for its life against the black...
This fact is strikingly illustrated by the two great international crises of this year the murder of Chancellor Delltuss of Austria and the more recent assassination of King Alexander of Jugo-Slavia with its present Hungarian development. In the first case France and Italy, with the support of Great Britain, were united in opposing any extension of German influence into Austria. Since the little government was able to find no support It was willing to retreat and peace was preserved...
...present situation, however, the alignment is different. Jugo-Slavia, apparently confident of French support, has taken a threatening attitude towards Hungary. Meanwhile Italy, whose alliance with Hungary has proved to be mutually beneficial, is the natural enemy of the Serb-Croat-Slovene state and urges resistance to its aggressions. Therefore any conflict resulting from this crisis would find France and Italy in opposite camps...
Momentarily the street was stunned. There was nervous selling after the first reports of the deaths. Foreign exchange became active as French francs were sold. French, Jugo-Slavian and Italian bonds were sold. Then the trading quieted
After a few weeks of preliminary study in Paris, Professor Conant will proceed to Jugo-Slavia to study the Byzantine churches of the 13th and 14th centuries, peculiar to the Balkan peninsula, under the guidance of the Jugo-Slavian government. From here he will go to Athens to take part in the excavation of the Parthenon, and will then return to the Abbey of Cluny. On returning from Europe he hopes to publish a survey of the architecture of the Balkan churches, which have received little attention from archeologists...