Word: sarajevos
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...20th anniversary of the Sarajevo murders the World Press was full of solemn editorials but in Sarajevo survivors of the plot took their ease in the snug cafe of Papa Semiz on King Peter's Street...
...Franz Josef I died in 1916 without male issue after his only son Rudolf had been mysteriously killed at Meyerling in 1889. The throne would then have passed to the Emperor's nephew. Franz Ferdinand, had not that Archduke been assassinated with his morganatic wile at Sarajevo in 1914. Although Franz Ferdinand had three children, Sophie, Maximilian, and Ernst, the crown went to Franz Ferdinand's nephew, Karl, husband of sober Zita de Bourbon, who was one of the 18 children of Robert Duke of Parma. Curly-haired Otto, the acknowledged heir, was their eldest child. Maximilian...
...will be the result of accident, not of design. What is more likely to come than early hostilities is another series of incidents like those that preceded the World War. Thus between 1905 and 1914 Europe moved from Tangier to Bosnia, from Bosnia to Agadir, and from Agadir to Sarajevo. . . . Europe is consciously and visibly headed for war. . . ." But need the U. S. become involved? Yes. says Author Simonds. because "Mr. Roosevelt's foreign policy ... is identical with Mr. Wilson's." The Author, unlike many of his colleagues who are inclined to take the official view on international...
...pictures sweep from Sarajevo to Sedan, from recruiting rallies to cemeteries, from ammunition factories to prison camps. Notable shots: Archduke Ferdinand's blood-flecked tunic; silk-hatted Etonians drilling with rifles; French troops deployed for the first battle of the Marne; Serbia's melancholy Peter watching his army break before Mackensen; a direct hit on Rheims Cathedral; the famed River Clyde under fire at Gallipoli; Russian infantry retreating on the run; the U. S. transport Antilles sinking; a No Man's Land capture; U. S. infantry blinded by gas; a dachshund following Kaiser Wilhelm into exile; French...
Undeniably Storm at Daybreak, from a play by Sandor Hunyadi, holds together well and the skill of its actors makes its gaudy situations credible. Boleslavsky's version of the Sarajevo incident is probably Hollywood's high to date - if only for the shot of a brass band saluting the Archduke's arrival, with the cymbalist sadly exalted by the uproar of his own playing...