Word: jugoslavs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allies of France, Rumania and Czechoslovakia also sent bombing planes, partly to ensure the safety of Rumanian King Carol and Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Eduard Benes, partly to remind grief-stricken Jugoslavia of her treaty ties with France. So impressed was the Jugoslav Government that the official last words of King Alexander were amended last week from "Protect Jugoslavia!" to "Protect Jugoslavia and cherish our friendship with France"-no mean mouthful for a man dying of hemorrhage provoked by bullets...
Only major mourner to arrive without troops was Adolf Hitler's blustering Air Minister and Premier of Prussia, General Hermann Wilhelm Göring. He embarrassed everyone by hailing King Alexander as a dictator-which indeed His Majesty was-and strongly implying that the Jugoslav Government had friendly ties with Nazi Berlin. In ruthless, effective Balkan fashion the police of Belgrade proceeded to make Alexander's funeral safe. Over 6,500 suspects and near-suspects were thrown into jail. Lest someone try to take a crack at General Goring every German immigrant in the capital was put under...
...soon lie. From their catalog, Julius Maschner & Son chose the same model coffin as those they recently completed for former Chancellors Dollfuss and Seipel of Austria. All they had to do was remove the Roman crucifix from the lid and replace it with a Serbian Orthodox cross, applique the Jugoslav royal arms and a silver name plate. There were also a few minor adjustments to be made to be sure that it would fit on a Jugoslav gun carriage...
...France public resentment at the ease with which the murders were executed forced the reorganization of the Doumergue Cabinet, the retirement of Minister of the Interior Albert Sarraut. Working fast and furiously to save their reputations, the French secret police, assisted by the Jugoslav police, had uncovered by the week's end, the following "facts": Alexander's assassin, hacked to pieces by police sabres and bullets, was a fat young man named Petrus Kalemen, later said to be Vlada Georgieff. On his arm was tattooed the motto and device of a Mace donian secret society known as IMRO...
...that four private contributions toward extinction of War Debts have been received. In each case the foreign government concerned is queried and only after receiving its O. K. does the Treasury wipe off the debt in question the amount of the gift. Biggest contribution thus far was from a Jugoslav who left his entire estate, all of it tied up in property, to vindicate Jugoslavia which has welched $825,000. Selling the property bit by bit, the Treasury had realized $1,100 up to last week. Next largest contribution: $1,000 from the estate of a Frenchman who died...