Word: serbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Odon von Horvath lived in the shadow of a huge, sinister, apparently dead but always growing tree-the German State. He was born in 1901 in what was then Serbia, where his father served in the Austro-Hungarian embassy. He was educated in Budapest. During his adolescence the German tree trunk burned itself hollow with...
...Karageorgevitches returned to rule Serbia after the Obrenovitches- King, Queen and five other dignitaries of the court-had been conveniently wiped out in one night. While Crown Prince Alexander was being prepared for the kingship, Prince Paul went to Oxford. His education there was interrupted thrice by wars-by the First (Balkans v. Turkey) and Second (Serbia, Greece, Rumania, Turkey v. Bulgaria) Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913, again by the World War, which began by the Austrians invading Serbia in 1914. Each time Prince Paul went home to take an officer's commission, each time he returned...
...Serbia had been expanded into a nation twice its original size as a result of the post-War treaties and plebiscites, which gave Serbia Montenegro, the Austrian provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the semiautonomous region of Croatia and other generous slices of Hungary. The population was thus trebled (to 15,000,000) and all the south Slavs (Yugoslavia means "land of south Slavs") were united. Yugoslavia became, after Rumania, the second largest Balkan State (area: 96,000 square miles...
...best-known autobiographies of U. S. immigrants-Edward Bok's autobiography, Michael Pupin's From Immigrant to Inventor, Louis Adamic's Laughing in the Jungle and My America-have been written by immigrants from the smallest countries: Holland, Serbia, Yugoslavia. With publication last week of Stoyan Christowe's autobiography, this unexplored coincidence still held good. Son of a Bulgarian village sage, stocky, fierce-looking, congenial Author Christowe, now 40, is known as a contributor to the defunct, highbrow Dial, author of two well-received books, Heroes and Assassirts, an account of Macedonian terrorists, and Mara...
...hours later Serbia's beloved Patriarch expired. In no mood to wait until next autumn, when the Concordat goes for ratification to the Senate. Orthodox zealots attacked two Skupshtina members who had voted for ratification. Police rescued them but their clothes were in shreds...