Word: jugo
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...annexation of Fiume. It certainly ought to be recognized (the late war is a painful example) that the peoples of any nation--especially agricultural nations--must have a natural and accessible outlet to the sea. Italy's uncompromising control over Fiume and the surrounding country would virtually bottle up Jugo-Slavia, Austria, Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia...
...Croats," and the settlements of the Congress of Berlin, with Austrian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina causing intense disappointment of the Serbs. Nevertheless, there was the Austrian alliance and its predominance in Serbia till the accession of Peter Kaigevyevich in 1903. Yet with all Serbia's troubles, the Jugo-Slav idea blossomed and bore fruit in the minds of the leaders and there was linguistic reform and a literary revival, despite jealousies, religious feelings, the Austrians playing off one against the other...
...That Jugo-Slavia, the new kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes created by the Peace Conference, will develop into a strong and unified nation, in spite of all the jealousies, difference in customs among these peoples, was the belief expressed by Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge '87 in the third of his lectures on "Thee States of Central Europe" at the Lowell Institute. The resources of the country and its position in the centre of Europe are in its favor; as soon as its prejudices can be smoothed over and unity of spirit developed its road to strength will be unimpeded...
...Apart from the fact that Serbia in Particular has suffered ter4mendously and cannot get much pecuniary indemnity, the new State has had a large number of unpleasant boundary questions." Professor Coolidge said, "From Austria and Hungary, enemy States not represented at Paris, the Jugo-Slavs have got almost all they seriously asked. The same thing is true regarding Bulgaria. The last bit of Bulgarian Macedonia has gone to Serbia. Without gong into the Macedonian question, one must say that in spite of the skillful historical and other arguments that have been put forth on the Serbian side, it is hard...
...Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913, disapproved by Austria, who believed that first Turkey and then Bulgaria would win, gave Serbia greatly increased territory and prestige, and its was particularly worth recalling that all Jugo-Slave turned toward her. Austria-Hungary felt herself endangered with the menace of the story of the liberation of Italy all over again and determined to prevent it. Then followed the murder of Ferdinand, although he was a friend of the Jugo-Slave, and the beginning of the World War. Swiftly sketching the invasion of Serbia and its conquest, the pact of Corfu, July...