Word: jugoslavians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sister, ex-Queen Elisabeth of Greece. Italian newsorgans were furious. Rumania lately turned down a proposal by Benito Mussolini that she sign a treaty pledging assistance to Italy in case of a war with Jugoslavia. From Italy's standpoint the Rumanian Government, by consenting to a Jugoslavian state visit, was offering a rebuff to Italy, putting Il Duce's political nose out of joint...
Since Jugoslavia is France's Man Friday in Balkan politics and since Jugoslavia adjoins Albania it was the Jugoslav Minister in London who rushed around to the British Foreign Office last week, filed excited warning that "the Jugoslavian Royal Government views with gravest concern the situation now arising in the Balkans due to Italian policy...
Hands & feet as clumsy as a seal's flippers are the penalty which several thousand Dutch, Jugoslavian and German girls are paying for not wanting or daring to have babies. Theirs is precisely the punishment that was inflicted upon several thousand U. S. citizens who, craving drink, drank Jamaica ginger extract (TIME, March 24, 1930 et seq.). The European girls took apiol, an oily fluid obtained from parsley flowers, as an abortifacient. Both the European apiol and the U. S. ginger extract had been adulterated by viciously shrewd manufacturers with a tricresyl phosphate, newly discovered organic chemical which destroys...
...Belgrade General MacArthur was the only foreign military expert invited to watch while a division of the Jugoslavian Army maneuvered in the mud, marched between lanes of peasants who threw grapes at the soldiers. At a banquet of generals General MacArthur joined hands with the others, did the national dance, called kolo, which consists of running around the table in one direction, then running around the table in the other. Then he made a speech...
...firmest allies, one of her greatest debtors. Last May French bankers lent Jugoslavia $42,000,000. Within the past two or three months King Alexander has sought another loan. French bankers, listening to promptings from the Quai d'Orsay. replied that the efficacy of the large, well-paid Jugoslavian army was seriously damaged by Croat and Slovene plottings, that the dictatorship must be ended in order to bring these recalcitrants into line before the money bags jingled again. President Thomas Masaryk and Foreign Minister Edouard Benes of Czechoslovakia, another of France's allies, were equally insistent...