Word: semiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Three youths prepared for the crime at one of Papa Semiz' beer-stained tables. Being minors, they could not receive the death sentence, but all three were cast into damp Austrian dungeons where they died in a few years of consumption. Papa Semiz, however, has lived on and so have some of the three youths' accomplices, notably Victor Rupchich, a newspaper editor who was back in the cafe at the fatal hour last week for a glass of scorching slivovitz...
...remember it all as if it happened yesterday," said Papa Semiz. "It was there in that corner, just against the window, that Gavrilo Princip sat just 20 years ago while he waited for my clock to strike the hour...
While the slivovitz circulated last week Papa Semiz philosophized. "That was the beginning and the end of the War for us in Sarajevo. No more shots were fired here. Men were conscripted to fight for the Austrians and they came home to find themselves Jugoslavs. So much the better! I never thought that that young student Princip sipping his coffee in my café would throw Kings and Emperors and Sultans off their thrones and upset the World by two pistol shots...
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