Word: jugoslavs
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Alexander had right royal reasons for resisting pressure to recognize the Bolsheviks. The best and some of the most loyal troops in his army are refugee White Russians. But over the weekend France, new ally of Soviet Russia, added her pres sure and Jugoslav Foreign Minister Boske Jeftich declared in Paris, "My country will recognize Soviet Russia as soon as I get home...
...inspired Little Entente. But things have changed in a twelvemonth. Spurred on by the menace of Hitlerism and the threat to the Balkan "succession states"* of a possible Habsburg restoration in Austria and Hungary, Boske Jeftitch has trotted up & down the Balkan corridor trying to organ ize a separate Jugoslav-Turkish-Bulgarian entente. The advantages of such an alliance to impoverished Bulgaria were obvious, but there was just one point on which Foreign Minister Jeftitch was insistent. Jugoslavia would join no pact unless the Bulgarian Government could prove its capacity to handle the noisy Macedonian minority that has made life...
...years ago. But Manchester could not hold him long. World-wide traveler, his particular provinces are the Near East. Mexico, Spain, the republics of Central Europe. He speaks many languages fluently, some like a native. (In Albania his glibness brought him under suspicion of being a Jugoslav spy.) Author Baerlein says of himself: "Henry Baerlein has this resemblance to a happy country in tint he is rather devoid of history. . . ." Other hooks: The House of the Fighting Cocks, Over the Hills of Ruthenia, The March of the 70,000, Mariposa, Dreamy Rivers (TIME...
...chunks a holy slava cake (plain white flour and yeast) in King Alexander's incense-filled Court Chapel. Digging a hole in each chunk with knives, the priests poured red wine into the holes, after which Royalty and Priest drank the wine and kissed each other. According to Jugoslav Orthodox custom, Guests Boris and loanna thus became figuratively "of the same family" with Host Alexander and Hostess Marie. Too scandalized to protest was the Vatican, which protested vigorously but in vain when Rome's Catholic loanna was remarried in Sofia by an Orthodox priest and her first-born...
...Steel had been formed. When Union Steel announced plans for building a rail mill and a new railroad to Pittsburgh, U. S. Steel came around to bargain, bought Union Steel at a huge profit to Mellon and Frick. While all this was going on, one morning in 1901 a Jugoslav mining engineer punched a hole in a salt dome on the Texas plains and a huge fountain of oil such as man had never seen before spouted into the air. That well at Spindletop was to turn out more oil in the first three years than all the wells...