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When Novelist West was ten, "Alexander Obrenovitch, King of Serbia, and his wife Draga were murdered in the Palace at Belgrade, and their naked bodies thrown out of their bedroom into the garden. . . . The crime lingered in my mind only because of its nightmare touches. The conspirators blew open the door of the Palace with a dynamite cartridge which fused the electric lights, and they stumbled about blaspheming in the darkness, passing into a frenzy of cruelty that was half terror. The King and Queen hid in a secret cupboard in their bedroom for two hours, listening to the searchers...
Alexander Obrenovitch was succeeded on the throne by the father of Alexander II, at whose murder in the newsreel Author West peered "like an old woman reading the tea-leaves in her cup. ... I could not understand this event, no matter how often I saw this picture. I knew, of course, how and why the murder had happened...
...assault which Dusan Simovitch learned at St. Cyr, the elite French war college, began to counterattack in exactly the opposite direction from their pre-battle expectation. Their major effort was southward, into the Serbian hills. They counterattacked near Kragujevac, General Simovitch's birthplace - traditional home of the Obrenovitch dynasty. Their strongest push was into a rugged defile known as Kachanik Pass. There they claimed to have destroyed 90 German tanks, to have taken great toll of man power, to have checked the German drive...
...entirely original design but Julius Maschner & Son are used to rushing work. In existence for some 300 years, the firm has made coffins for Maria Theresa, the Empress Elizabeth, the murdered Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg, Emperor Franz Josef, the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch of Serbia. In the elaborate neo-Byzantine Kara-Georgevitch family tomb on the hill of Oplenatz murdered Alexander of Jugoslavia, in his Austrian sarcophagus, will 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...
...funeral oration from Premier Uzunovitch while Deputies roared out "Slavu Mu! Glory to Him!" at every mention of the dead King. Eyes kept turning from the pale Prince Regent to another figure behind him. grizzled, bristling General Pera Zivkovitch, by tradition the man who let the murderers of Alexander Obrenovitch into the royal palace, virtual dictator for three years under Alexander of Jugoslavia, the strongest, the most hated man in the kingdom, and as Commander of the Royal Guard, proprietor of a well-drilled, well-equipped army-within-an-army of nearly...