Word: jugoslavs
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...Jugoslav Queen Mother...
...other League statesmen, last week, were of preponderant importance, the Council took certain official steps. It: 1) Authorized a $30,000,000 loan for Greece, to be raised in Great Britain and the U.S. under League sponsorship; 2) Approved registration with the League, last week, of the Franco-Jugoslav treaty of friendship and accord (TIME, Dec. 5); 3) Listened to the report of the League's Opium Commission which was read by its rapporteur, white-haired Senator Raoul Dandurand of Canada. He, trenchant, charged that traffic in illicit drugs is conducted by persons "with huge financial resources" in nearly every...
...treaty signed last week accomplished all requisite trumpeting. It dressed up the well-known dependence of Albania upon Italy in the guise of an "unalterable defensive alliance" between sovereign states. With this counterblast against the Franco-Jugoslav treaty, Signor Mussolini perhaps dazzled and reassured some impressionable Italians. The feelings of non-Italians were well echoed by the Journal des Debats of Paris which called the treaty "a gesture of bad humor...
Despite these flag-wagging furores, L'Impero, one of the many organs of the Fascist Party, declared that "the calm reigning in Italy, despite Jugoslav provocations, does not mean that we are not indignant. It means that we disciplinarily obey Government orders...
Nevertheless, it was mooted that Signer Mussolini would have something to say on the Franco-Jugoslav treaty when Parliament convenes next month, and that something, all conceded, would be quite up to Il Duce's usual pyrotechnical verbiage...