Word: jugoslav
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...Italian army outnumbers the Jugoslav three to one. The Jugoslav navy of 12 destroyers and torpedo boats and one, pre-War German cruiser would be a puny opponent for the modern, potent Battle Fleet of Italy. Yet last week in a score of Jugoslav cities and towns student hotheads, marched, demonstrated, rioted, skirmished with the police, and shouted: "Down with Mussolini!" "Long live King Alexander [of Jugoslavia]!" "Death to Fascismo!"; and "Down with the Treaty of Nettuno...
...Italo-Jugoslav Treaties of Nettuno were virtually dictated by Signor Mussolini in 1925 and provide that Italians may colonize and thus peacefully penetrate the Dalmatian coast of Jugoslavia, which lies directly across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. For three years the Jugoslav Parliament has delayed to ratify the Treaty of Nettuno. Last week the hot-head students believed that Prime Minister Vukitchevitch was about to yield to Italian pressure and press for ratification. Mounted ominously the hereditary hatred of rival peoples who face each other across a narrow sea. Suddenly came an insult to fire the charge of hatred. Jugoslav...
Restaurant Battle. Students at Belgrade, Jugoslav Capital, were stirred to such fury by the possibly erroneous reports from Zara that they stormed the Restaurant of the Russian Tsar at Belgrade, where several members of the Cabinet were known to be dining. "TRAITORS! COWARDS!" roared the students, and soon began to hurl bricks through the windows of the restaurant, to emphasize their contention that the Cabinet ought not to submit the Treaties of Nettuno for ratifications by the Skupshtina (Parliament...
Will you be good enough to correct an item which appeared in your issue of April 2 [p. 13]? I refer to the note about Ivan Mestrovitch, the eminent Jugoslav sculptor, of whom you say that "he has been retained by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation at high fees to execute the plaques which accompany its $25,000 peace prizes...
Ivan Mestrovic is a frowning, intense, darkly bearded Jugoslav who began life as a Dalmatian shepherd boy, became apprenticed to a stone cutter, and developed such a recognized genius for sculpture that he has been retained by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation at high fees to execute the plaques which accompany its $25,000 peace prizes (TIME...