Word: serajevo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen years ago last week, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heavy-jowled, fearsomely mustached, tightly hooked into his light blue tunic, handed his wife into an automobile in front of the Serajevo town hall. A few moments later as the automobile passed by the Lateiner bridge over the Miljacka River, a volley of pistol shots rang out. The Archduke and his wife slumped forward, dead. That shooting by the Serajevo bridge, fuse of the World War, brought death to millions. Incidentally it brought independence from Austria to the province of Bosnia and the creation of the Jugoslav Kingdom. Last week...
...Francis Joseph's circle?the unhappy Empress, proud and beautiful, stabbed by an anarchist; Archduke Max, strangely Emperor of Mexico; Archduke John Salvator who disappeared into the Pacific; the Crown Prince Rudolf mysteriously and horribly a suicide; and finally the next heir apparent, Franz Ferdinand, fatefully killed at Serajevo. But these dramatics are insignificant facts in Author Redlich's account of the final struggle between time-honored legitimacy and modern nationalism?Francis Joseph granting his people universal suffrage and a parliament, and then stultifying the gesture by reserving his absolute power...
Serbia was the traditional Land of Assassinations. Most famed: the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Serajevo, the prelude to the World War. Most atrocious: the murder in their royal night clothes of King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia in 1903 by Serbian officers in the pay of Imperial Austria. Last week it seemed that although small Serbia no longer exists, having become large Jugoslavia, there has been a throwback to old-style Serbian assassination at Belgrade...
...Came About. Not until late last week was it clear "what caused the strike" (TIME, May 10) in the sense that the assassination at Serajevo may be said to have "caused" the World...