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...slip over the line into Switzerland: Ivan Raitch and Zvonemer Posposil. According to the French police, Raitch, Posposil and Kalemen were members of a Croatian terrorist organization known as Ustashi, sworn to the assassination of King Alexander in revenge for the murder of the great Croat Leader Stephan Raditch in Belgrade's Parliament six years ago. Ustashi's founder is an exiled Croatian deputy named Ante Pavelitch. Its headquarters was at a Hungarian camp for Croatian refugees at Janka Puszta where they were supposed to have been drilled by Hungarian army officers. Conspirator Pavelitch was said to have...
...June 20, 1928," he said, "a Serb Deputy, Punica Ratchitch, while the Chamber was sitting, drew a revolver from his pocket and fired five shots at the Croat Deputies. My cousin, Paul Raditch, convinced that the Serb wanted to kill my father, threw himself upon him but fell dead, shot in the head. My father rose, with his old friend Grandzsa by his side. Punica Ratchitch continued to fire and my father fell, together with Grandzsa and another Croat named Peruar. Taken to a hospital my father died a few weeks later, both from his wounds and from poison administered...
Soon, all three professors began questioning Candidate Raditch. (They had of course already read his 450 pages.) Sternly at last Professor Seignobos spoke: "In your very interesting thesis, M. Raditch, you have forgotten one very important point, and that is that in the Balkans political murders are looked upon as current means to political ends. Balkan opinion regarding such murders differs entirely from American or European opinion. Nevertheless, the commission unanimously accepts your thesis and awards you your degree...
Flushed with success, Vladimir Raditch rushed to his mother, kissed her twice, smack, smack...
...since the greatest number of people who had ever looked upon the same corpse marched for five days in sub-zero weather past the bier of LENIN in Moscow had there been such a funeral as Raditch's. Result of his death: Croatian opposition to the rule of King Alexander has markedly decreased...