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Thus Little Emperor Alexander I continued to play, last week, the game which he was taught by that great statesman Nikola Pashitch, who was the bulwark of the present dynasty until his death at the age of 80 (TIME...
What if he would soon be 81? Did he not say recently in jest: "So, so! My tasks are nearly done. I have only to live until I find a wife for our five-year-old Crown Prince Peter" (TIME, May 10). The sap was running strong in M. Pashitch yet, it seemed. When he rode away to the Royal Palace it must have been to accept the Premiership for the twelfth time. Pashitch would take the helm. Everything would be all right...
...When M. Pashitch returned from his conference with King Alexander he went straight to bed. Later he tossed and moaned, became unconscious. His physicians, hurriedly summoned, found that an artery in the brain of M. Pashitch had burst. There was no hope. The right half of the brain was already paralyzed. To relieve the blood pressure and permit M. Pashitch to recover consciousness for a few minutes external bleeding was induced by an incision. For an instant he rallied, recognized his daughter and whispered something as she bent over him. Then Death came in a red mist. Jugoslavia had lost...
...plain golden oak casket received Nikola Pashitch at the last. Slowly, on a rumbling gun carriage, he passed to his grave through broad avenues which were muddy roads in his youth. As clods fell upon the casket a priest bearing a silver tray of steamed wheat gave to each onlooker a few grains which they munched in mystic symbolism...
Died. Nikola Pashitch, 80, in Belgrade; of apoplexy...