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...Serbia, Rumania, Georgia, Poland and Albania. His concern encompasses some 200 million souls...
...University of Michigan, stands accused of being too poor a security risk to hold an Air Force Commission. Not that there is doubt as to his personal conduct. The Review Board emphasized that his loyalty appeared properly fervent. But several informants had alleged that his father, an emigre from Serbia and a retired automobile worker, habitually read Communist newspapers, both domestic and from his homeland. The Lieutenant's sister, moreover, was identified as a Communist sympathizer and a frequent fixture of picketlines...
...Russians rather than face exposure as a homosexual. During the ten years that passed before he was discovered and driven to suicide, Redl turned over to Russian intelligence some of the Austro-Hungarian empire's most cherished secrets. Among them were detailed plans for campaigns against Serbia, a fact which somewhat handicapped the Austro-Hungarian army when war with Serbia, Russia's ally, finally came...
Polo in the Streets. At 17, Bobbety was a trainbearer at George V's coronation; thence, he trod a well-worn road: Eton, Oxford (where he and the Prince of Serbia were fined for playing bicycle-polo in the streets), and the Grenadier Guards. Wounded in France, Viscount Cranborne, as Salisbury was known while his father was alive, got a medical discharge and married Betty Cavendish, niece of the Duke of Devonshire...
...peasants are reluctant to make the long and costly trek to the cities; and those who are attracted by new industrial centers often return home because the factories tend to expand too quickly while raw material sources remain meagre or distant. The larger deposits of coal and iron in Serbia and Slovenia, however, have made a speedier development of heavy industry there possible...