Word: jugoslavians
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...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...
Alexander of Jugoslavia, bespectacled Dictator-King, reached the age of 41 last week. His birthday was widely celebrated. In Belgrade 500 citizen delegates, brilliantly embroidered, pranced up and down the streets shouting Zhivoi Kralj! Zhivoi Kralj! (literally: "The King, let him live!") In the royal palace diplomats danced with Jugoslavian beauties. Troops marched and countermarched on the parade ground. Jugoslavian bunting draped public buildings. In New York Consul-General Radoyé Yankovitch gave a birthday luncheon at which U. S. Minister to Jugoslavia John Dyneley Prince announced that "progress in Jugoslavia is rapid," and Dr. John H. Finley...
Jogging home in his high wheeled wooden cart, a Jugoslavian farmer boy looked out last week across a field of maize and thought he saw two peasant women tussling in the twilight. "Don't touch me, Milica!" screamed one. Cracking his whip and clucking to his nag, the farmer boy jogged on. Reaching home he mentioned with a shrug the trivial incident...
Above all other military duties private soldiers enjoy listening to lectures. Whether the subject is Elementary Gunnery or Advanced Hygiene does not matter. A soldier at a lecture is quietly sitting down. He is not drilling, digging or carrying anything. Last week soldiers of the First Jugoslavian Infantry stationed at Bosiljgrad sat down for an hour to hear all about hand grenades, while other less fortunate soldiers drilled, marched and sweated in the courtyard below. Young Lieutenant Jovice gave the lecture. Before him lay a loaded hand grenade, not the compact "pineapple" type of Mills bomb familiar to thousands...
...Therefore Croatian Deputies blocked its ratification until their leader, Stefan Raditch, was assassinated in Parliament by a Government Deputy (TIME, July 2, Aug. 20). Few will deny that the Treaty of Nettuno was put through secondarily by assassination and primarily as the result of threats and pressure upon the Jugoslavian Government by His Excellency Benito Mussolini...