Word: serbia
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...Only three months before his assassination King Alexander completed on the hill of Oplenatz, 50 miles from Belgrade, a vast neo-Byzantine family tomb. Therein he installed his swineherd ancestor ''Black George," the peasant who became a bandit, then a general, and finally the "Liberator of Serbia." The mausoleum is in the form of a multidomed church with a crypt beneath for the royal Kara-Georgevitches, the descendants of Black George. Last week green lights burned in the crypt. When King Alexander's body, brought by train and motor hearse from Belgrade, was finally lowered to rest...
...entirely original design but Julius Maschner & Son are used to rushing work. In existence for some 300 years, the firm has made coffins for Maria Theresa, the Empress Elizabeth, the murdered Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg, Emperor Franz Josef, the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch of Serbia. In the elaborate neo-Byzantine Kara-Georgevitch family tomb on the hill of Oplenatz murdered Alexander of Jugoslavia, in his Austrian sarcophagus, will soon lie. From their catalog, Julius Maschner & Son chose the same model coffin as those they recently completed for former Chancellors Dollfuss and Seipel of Austria...
...Europe echoed with the pitiful cry of little King Peter: "Why did they do it?" They did it because the various Balkan nationalities that were persuaded to throw in their lot with Serbia after the War feel that they have been bilked of their due. The Kingdom that they thought they were joining, that of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, quickly became Jugoslavia, in which only the voice of Serbia could be heard. Bosnians, Herzegovinians, Slovenes found Serbia a far more brutal master than Austria-Hungary. Any effort to state national aspirations in public brought instant oppression, exile, often torture...
Then in 1918 came his triumph. He saw his little Serbia swell to five times its original size, gobble Montenegro where he was born and slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria and become the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later Jugoslavia. In 1921 old King Peter died and Alexander was King at last. Very quickly Croats and Slovenes learned who were their masters...
...crowd strained against the tight rope of police and troops. King and Minister stepped into the fourth automobile and the line moved forward. It happened then almost exactly as it had happened to Franz Ferdinand of Austria on a hot July day in 1914 in Alexander's Serbia. Quick as a squirrel a nondescript youth ducked under the police line, leaped to the running board of the royal car. His pistol was scarcely an arm's length from the King as he began to fire. Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! A sabre crashed on the assassin's head...