Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian high above the harbor floated a great black banner and other streamers of crepe hung from nearly every window in the town when the Dubrovnik came in with its sad freight. For a few hours King Alexander lay in state, before being carried to a special train and sent on a slow roundabout journey through the provinces of his enemies to his capital. At every important town the train made a brief pause, longest of all in Zagreb, capital of "rebellious Croatia." If any still hated Alexander they dared not show...
Typical of the country's reaction was that of a Roman Catholic priest named Anton Koroshetz. As leader of the Slovenian People's Party Father Koroshetz has been interned on a Dalmatian island for almost two years. Last week he begged and obtained permission to go to Split "to say a prayer and drop a tear on the coffin of my king...
...tomb on the hill of Oplenatz murdered Alexander of Jugoslavia, in his Austrian sarcophagus, will soon lie. From their catalog, Julius Maschner & Son chose the same model coffin as those they recently completed for former Chancellors Dollfuss and Seipel of Austria. All they had to do was remove the Roman crucifix from the lid and replace it with a Serbian Orthodox cross, applique the Jugoslav royal arms and a silver name plate. There were also a few minor adjustments to be made to be sure that it would fit on a Jugoslav gun carriage...
...whose duty was to carry suitcases of small arms to the assassins, and two men. All Europe exploded in a few days of mutual recrimination. Because the murder weapons were German made. French police tried to blame the Nazis. Jugoslav crowds hurled insults at Italian consulates. Orthodox Serbians pelted Roman Catholic churches with stones, then switched their spleen to Hungary which had given shelter to Ustashi. A dozen chancelleries grew worried. Press attacks suddenly ceased. Jugoslavia, too. was calm. It might be the heavy silence before the hurricane, but for the time being even the angry attacks against Italy ceased...
More adept than any other at investing its ceremonies with glittery pomp, the Roman Catholic Church lavishly outdoes itself every two years when it stages an international Eucharistic Congress. Last week the 32nd Eucharistic Congress opened in Buenos Aires...