Word: jugoslavians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terrific political struggle for the control of Jugoslavian destinies was expected tonight. Many of the army leaders at Belgrade openly favor a closer alliance with Germany. King Alexander was on his way to Paris perhaps definitely to arrange an entente with France, and he had the backing of a majority of his advisors in the projected move...
That did the trick. Foreign Minister Benito Mussolini, puffing with rage, sent the Italian Minister at Belgrade hot-footing around to the Jugoslavian Foreign Office with an official protest. Wrote the Giornale d'Italia...
...Jugoslavian incident rubbed Foreign Minister Mussolini the wrong way because for three months Italy's puppet King Zog of Albania has been acting uppity. Albania was violently objecting to Italian officers commanding her troops. She was refusing to allow Italian immigrants to settle in the rich Mushakia Valley. Italy had pretty definite knowledge that Jugoslavia was secretly backing Albania's stand, had offered to fight on her side if Italian troops landed in Albania...
...Duce had not forgotten the empty German and Jugoslavian buildings when he addressed a crowd of 75,000 swarthy Apulians...
...include Alsace-Lorraine, the Netherlands, parts of Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania and enough of Italy to give Germany a sea coast adjoining Jugoslavia on the Adriatic. "This Nazi propaganda bore fruit," charged Messaggero, "in the assistance Jugoslavia gave the Nazis in Austria and the mobilization of Jugoslavian armed forces to counterbalance Italy's action...