Word: sarajevos
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...young lieutenant, who sported the Iron Cross as reward for having been the first German officer to reach Sarajevo, told Correspondent Brock: "We shall be in Cairo in July. Before the middle. We're sure...
...century between Waterloo and Sarajevo, 35,000,000 people left the Old World for the New, half of them in three great waves- Celtic, Teutonic and Slavic-Mediterranean. This, says Hansen, was the greatest mass movement in history, and it was unorganized. But it had roots in almost every aspect of contemporary European society, and even in the Middle Ages...
...wall behind white-bearded Leader Pechanatz hung a picture of Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who shot and killed the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, thus started World War I. In a corner, on the floor, lay the bleached skeleton of a Chetnik hero. Said Leader Pechanatz, with a casual wave of his arm: "His mother comes to see me every few weeks. She often asks whose skeleton that is. I have never told her. I am hard, but not that hard...
...were flatly opposed. They were Minister of Agriculture Chubrilovitch, Minister of Justice Mihajlo Konstantinovitch and Minister of Social Welfare Srdjan Budisavljevitch. All were members of the Serbian minority party and Dr. Chubrilovitch's brother was put to death by the Austrians for taking part in the assassination at Sarajevo. All three resigned from the Cabinet...
...first feast of signatures was spread on a yellow-tapestried table in the Gobelin Hall of old Belvedere Palace, Vienna. In these halls once roared the voice of Eugen of Savoy, one of the Habsburgs' greatest warriors. Here strode Archduke Franz Ferdinand before Sarajevo. Here whispered poor Kurt von Schuschnigg, last Chancellor of independent Austria. Here also the architects of the New Order redrew the designs of Czecho-Slovakia (Nov. 2, 1938) and Rumania...