Word: jugoslavians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...religious groups which might threaten his government. There is an at tempt to stop political assassinations by solemnly reviving a 120-year-old law providing that all Senators and Deputies must leave their pistols, their daggers and their bludgeons in a special check room before entering Parliament. What Jugoslavian citizens really receive is an increase in local autonomy, a chance to vote for somebody. Outside pressure had been exerted to bring about this watering of the dictatorship. Within 24 hours the world press was calling it "another victory for France's golden bullets...
...like a wild walrus. When sober and not occupied with affairs of state he kept a bookstore in Zagreb. Drunk or sober Stefan Raditch could set the voters of Croatia on fire as no one else could. As leader of the Opposition he was foully shot down in the Jugoslavian Parliament by a Government Deputy (TIME, July 2, 1928). In Paris last week Croat Raditch's son, Vladimir Raditch, won his academic degree at the school of Higher Social Studies by presenting a thesis which might well have been called How My Father Was Murdered. The actual title...
Convicted last week of "terroristic manifestations" and conspiracy to assassinate Signore Benito Mussolini, four Jugoslavian youths were led out at dawn onto the broad parade ground at Trieste...
...With 725,000 troops. Armies of other nations rank: second French, 643,675; third British, 394,519; fourth Italian, 353,120; fifth Rumanian, 325,000; sixth Spanish, 243,511; seventh Polish, 229,900; eighth Japanese, 210,000: ninth Czechoslovakian, 158,103; tenth Jugoslavian, 141,568; eleventh...
...Jugoslavia, and the Great Assassin seemed from the point of view of his people a pure hero. They tore out a wall tablet erected in mourning for the assassinated Archduke, replaced it with a laudatory tablet to Princip, surmounting his name with laurel wreaths. Protests from abroad caused the Jugoslavian Government to order the Princip tablet covered with a thin layer of plaster, the official position being that it has been obliterated, while the populace consider that the Government is pretty slick. But the new heroic statue would seem to be definitive, a proclamation to the world in marble that...