Word: jugoslav
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Greeks and Jugoslavs have struggled mightily since the War for political control of Albania, a republic bounded by Greece, Jugoslavia and the Adriatic. Last week the influence of Jugoslavia became definitely predominant at Tirana (the capital) when Ahmed Bey Zogu, the Jugoslav-born President of Albania, called to the Premiership Cena Bey, also a Jugoslav by birth. The Greek faction, headed by onetime (June-Dec. 1923) Premier Bishop Fan Stylian Noli (now exiled in Italy), were reported last week to be seeking aid from Premier Mussolini wherewith to regain control of Albania and oust therefrom the Jugoslavs...
Engaged. Mary Landon Baker, Chicago heiress, famed because four years ago she refused at the church to wed her onetime fiance Allister McCormick (Harvester scion) ; to Bojidar Pouritch, until recently Jugoslav Consul at Chicago...
...Balkan crises lead to threats, overt acts, wars. During the past month a once healthy-looming crisis blew up, blew over, scarcely titillated the news cables of the world. Bulgarian comitadjis, "irregulars" (near-bandits), staged an impromptu raid across the Jugoslav frontier. Soon a collective note ("ultimatum") was despatched by Jugoslavia, Rumania and Greece demanding that Bulgaria disband and disperse her comitadjis. Though these highly irregular gentry are not easily to be disbanded-even by the government to which they owe nominal allegiance-the Bulgarian Foreign Office drafted and despatched a sufficiently conciliatory reply to Jugoslavia, Rumania and Greece last...
...meetings of the Little Entente.* The announced agenda included discussion of: 1) The European situation-presumably reference to the growing ascendancy of Italy† as the protector of the Little Entente and the coincident ambiguous position of France in that role. Notorious are Mussolini's secret conferences with Jugoslav Premier Nintchitch, his furtherance of a Roumanian loan at Rome, his diplomatic feelers into the Eastern Balkans, notably signalized last week by the bestowal upon Greek Dictator-President Pangalos of the Italian Great Cross. 2) Proposals to abolish inter-Little Entente customs control. 3) The perennial "Hungarian question" (i.e., Hungarians...
...Notorious are Mussolini's secret conferences with Jugoslav Premier Nintchitch, his furtherance of a Roumanian loan at Rome, his diplomatic feelers into the Eastern Balkans, notably signalized last week by the bestowal upon Greek Dictator-President Pangalos of the Italian Great Cross...