Word: pashitch
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...fait accompli, Yugo-Slavia will once again enjoy the support of the greatest of Slav nations. With Pan-Germanism dead and buried and Der Drang nach Osten but a blurred memory, Russia, and with Russia Pan-Slavism, will be able to play an unrestricted role in the Balkans. Premier Pashitch of Yugoslavia is probably more aware of this than any living man. His reason for wanting to recognize Russia, after having withheld that honor so long, is that Communism has been so modified that it will not present any grave danger to the Yugo-Slavian State...
...which Italy would allow Yugoslavia to annex the Slav section of the Free State. It is suggested that the administration of the ports of Fiume and Porto Barros shall be under a single mixed commission. It is understood that Signor Mussolini, Italian Premier, made urgent representations to M. Pashitch, Yugoslavian Premier, that the whole question of Fiume be settled once and for all, pointing out that the ports had been inactive since the end of the War and that all the commerce, which at one time centered in those ports, had been diverted to other parts of the world...
...Premier Pashitch is believed to be willing to accept the Italian proposals. He is, however, in a different position from Signor Mussolini. The Italian Premier enjoys almost universal popularity in Italy, but the Yugo-Slavian Government is in a shaky position, owing chiefly to the hostility of the Croats. Thus the chances of an immediate settlement are considered somewhat tenuous...
...shots were fired at Premier N. Pashitch as he was entering his car in front of the Narodna Skupshtina (National Assembly). The Premier saved his life by falling to the floor of the car, but was wounded in the hand...
...Premier Pashitch is one of the great schemers of the Balkans. As far back as 1881 he conceived the idea of a Greater Serbia, and it was largely through his ingenuity and foresight that the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes came into existence. He is also responsible for getting the present Constitution through the National Assembly-no easy feat in view of the Creation opposition. He is now 75 years of age and is known as the " Grand Old Man of Serbia" or the " Father of the Constitution...