Word: raditch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Avala reported Stefan Raditch to have provoked Government Deputies by shouting at them: "You are not men! YOU ARE SWINE!" That his remark does not constitute provocation for murder, among Jugoslavs, was indicated by TIME's comment that, " 'swine' is almost the favorite epithet bandied in Balkan parliaments...
...Treaty of Nettuno between Italy and Jugoslavia was ratified by the Belgrade Parliament last week. The Treaty tends to facilitate possible Italian encroachments upon the Jugoslav province of Croatia. Therefore Croatian Deputies blocked its ratification until their leader, Stefan Raditch, was assassinated in Parliament by a Government Deputy (TIME, July 2, Aug. 20). Few will deny that the Treaty of Nettuno was put through secondarily by assassination and primarily as the result of threats and pressure upon the Jugoslavian Government by His Excellency Benito Mussolini...
Behind the hearse of Stefan Raditch, walked, according to the lowest cabled estimates, slightly over 1% of the population of Jugoslavia.* At the climax of this prodigious demonstration, a wreath of thorns was laid upon the grave. From the wreath dangled, on a golden wire, the Serbian bullet which killed Croat Raditch...
Croatians mourn Raditch as their most potent protector from the tyranny of Serbia, which is the "Parent Kingdom" of that realm called Jugoslavia, which includes Croatia. Jugoslavs of national consciousness believe, however, that Stefan Raditch, whom they deem a demagog, was a pernicious influence, obstructing the eventual union of the Serbs, Croats and other South Slavian peoples. If his murder does not provoke a revolution in Croatia, it may yet prove to have been for the eventual good of the whole kingdom...
Died. Stefan Raditch, 57, foremost Croatian statesman; at Zagreb, murdered...