Word: pashitch
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...Bring me my overcoat," said Nikola Pashitch gruffly. Bearded and patriarchal, he spoke with the quiet firmness of one who has been his country's Premier eleven times. He had taken only a glass of milk and some cheese for supper, and soon he would be 81, and the doctors had spoken of apoplexy? but he was Pashitch. A crisis threatened, and King Alexander was waiting. When his coat was brought M. Pashitch slung it about him, kissed his eldest daughter gravely, and rolled away in his limousine...
Crisis. The events which sent M. Pashitch hurrying to his King were typical of many a Balkan crisis. The country had supposed that Foreign Minister Nintchitch* was in close touch with Premier Mussolini, and also that the new Jugoslav-born President Zogu of Albania was under his thumb. Like a thunderclap had come the news that Albania and Italy had concluded a mutual accord (TIME, Dec. 13). A rumor spread that this treaty contained secret military clauses which would make Albania an Italian pistol pointed at Jugoslavia. Suspicion, fear, hate seethed. Evidently Foreign Minister Nintchitch was a fool...
...Hour. Jugoslavs turned in their alarm and uncertainty to the great Pashitch, the bulwark of the present dynasty, the statesman who trebled the Kingdom of Serbia at Versailles, expanding it into Jugoslavia...
...Belgrade the bitter struggle for political supremacy between the "national minorities"* of Jugoslavia and the "parent kingdom" of Serbia, to which they were joined after the War, was violently renewed. Former Premier Pashitch (Serbian leader of the highly reactionary "Radical" ? Government party) attempted to strike at his archenemy, Stefan Raditch (Croatian champion of the "national minorities"), by causing the ejection from the Radical party of M. Liuba Jovanovitch (leader of the "young Radicals," who secretly sympathize with Croat Raditch...
...effect of this expulsion was not, as Pashitch intended, to discomfit the expelled Jovanovitch and his friend Raditch, but rather to cause a general anti-Radical reaction, which obliged the 15-day-old Radical Cabinet (TIME, April 19) of Premier Uzunovitch to resign. M. Uzunovitch reformed his Cabinet at once, but was forced to welcome into it Croat Raditch, as Minister of Education. The new Cabinet is thus a completely unstable "dog and cat coalition," like the last Pashitch Cabinet (TIME, April...