Word: pre-world
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...Allied-German duel for Yugoslav trade the Nazis appeared the winners of round one. The Germans forced Yugoslavia to recognize (in principle) pre-World War I debts incurred by Serbia and by the old Austrian province of Bosnia, now in Yugoslavia. Remarkable feature of this agreement was that neither debt has been serviced since 1914, and that both were virtually considered as having lapsed. To pay off the "debts," Yugoslavia will presumably offer goods...
...Saints' Day, the Grand Ducal Army (1,000 men, plus 350 recruits and 200 gendarmes) paraded in review in its new khaki uniforms, with helmets like the old Austrian Army. Said its commander: "This is quite a change from our old army in lollipop uniforms." The pre-World War uniform was sky-blue, wasp-waisted, gold-buttoned, with gold band on a high-crowned pillbox...
Died. Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, 76, exiled German diplomat, pre-World War I German Ambassador to U. S.; of heart disease; in Geneva, Switzerland...