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Last week, in Belgrade, Punica Ratchitch was brought to trial. He pleaded self-defense. The charge was manslaughter. The court was crowded with relatives, friends of the late great Stefan Raditch. Present also was many a Serb. In many a pocket revolvers rested heavily with good cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Swine Judged | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Since last June Jugoslavia has ratified the Treaty of Nettuno, riots and shootings have continued, the constitution has been abolished and Jugoslavs live tensely under the absolute dictatorship of Serb King Alexander I, "The Absolute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Swine Judged | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

What Smith Did Sirs: I am surprised and disgusted with TIME. You tell all about what Boris, the big Serb, did on March 4, but not one word do you give about the other man who if half a million votes had been ort the other side of the fence would have been the big show on March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...only a gigolo but also a thief, is a handsome one-eyed Serb, Djoritch Milan, who admitted to Paris police that he had stolen jewels from the Paris residence of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt. From Mrs. Vanderbilt's home Milan took an emerald worth $40,000, several other jewels of lesser value, one imitation pearl necklace, thirteen miniatures, three raw eggs. Milan insulted the Paris gendarmes who captured him, boasted that he was leader of a gang of Serbian thieves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Gigolos Licensed | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...king of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes rules three major peoples and several minor, despite the fact that all are lumped together as "Jugoslavia." Last week. King Alexander incensed his Croats to fury by entrusting the task of forming a cabinet to a Slovene who promptly grouped about himself Serb ministers. The 800,000 Croats in the U. S. echoed Croat Publicist Stanko Hranilovich when he_ declared in Manhattan last week: "Since 1918 the Croats of Jugoslavia have been oppressed and terrorized by the Serbs. . . . Croatian schools have been closed and now Croatian children are taught that they are Serbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Serbian Angels | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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