Word: sarajevo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sarajevo's 25th anniversary, they saw on the European horizon signs aplenty that the old war-ridden continent was again facing nerve-wracking summer days of crisis...
...550th anniversary, of the battle of Kossovo ("the Field of Blackbirds") in which the Serbs lost their independence to the Turks. It was the day which Franz Ferdinand-Archduke of Austria-Este, Heir Apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne-and his good Czech wife, Sophie, chose to visit Sarajevo, and it was the day when the trigger was pulled which set off World...
...years between the Franco-Prussian and the World Wars saw a three-fold growth of the city population, while the rural population stood still. After 1900 the trend frightened the military clique into demanding increased tariff protection for the farmer, and just before the famous shot was fired at Sarajevo the Kaiser's advisers were only reasonably certain that the food situation could withstand...
...SARAJEVO, Jugoslavia--Thirty persons were arrested tonight after disorders in this "birthplace" of the World War in which demonstrators shouted "Down with Hitler. Down with Mussolini...
...avert defeat by starting a general European war. Last week the harried Spanish Leftist Government, cut off from munitions supplies through France, its ports partly blockaded by ships and air bombers, delivered to the British and French Governments a threat which, if carried out, might easily produce another European Sarajevo...