Word: serbia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morgenthau was appointed in 1913 to represent the United States at Constantinople, and from 1914 to 1916 was in charge of the interests in Turkey of Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Serbia, Switzerland and Montenegro. In 1919 he served as a member of the mission, appointed by President Wilson in June of that year, for investigating conditions in Poland. Mr. Morgenthau was an incorporator of the American National Red Cross, is Vice-Chairman of the Near East Relief Commission and a director of the Institute of International Education. His book, "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story", which first appeared in installments...
...books and manuscripts are always on exhibition in the Treasure Room and in the Widener Room of the Library and are changed from time to time. At present there may be found in the Treasure Room a collection of commemorative War medals from France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Austria, Serbia, Roumania and other countries, lent by William M. Welch '00 of Boston; books and documents connected with the early history of the College; early Massachusetts history; original manuscripts of well-known English and American authors, and editions, manuscripts, facsimiles, portraits, and views of John Keats...
...squad and their birth-places are as follows: Louis Oravsky, Czecho-Slovakia; Graham Allen, North Carolina; Harry Jensen, Denmark; Alexander Yesczanin, Russia; Maurice Blomme, Belgium; Peter Woody, Georgia; Felix Loera, Mexico; Andrew Hirchow, Poland; and Ljubousir Antonijevich, Serbia...
...Peabody Hall, Phillips Broks House. Dr. Cadbury was a member of the Friends' Relief Committee and took an active part in relief work for many months. This committee, in addition to its work in Germany, worked in France and Czarist Russia during the war and is still working in Serbia, Poland, Austria and Soviet Russia. Dr. Cadbury's talk will be made more vivid since he has a large number of slides, including photographs of children, showing many of the actual conditions of suffering and want for the relief of which the Hoover Fund is being raised. He has called...
...Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913, disapproved by Austria, who believed that first Turkey and then Bulgaria would win, gave Serbia greatly increased territory and prestige, and its was particularly worth recalling that all Jugo-Slave turned toward her. Austria-Hungary felt herself endangered with the menace of the story of the liberation of Italy all over again and determined to prevent it. Then followed the murder of Ferdinand, although he was a friend of the Jugo-Slave, and the beginning of the World War. Swiftly sketching the invasion of Serbia and its conquest, the pact of Corfu, July...