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...Drangov, slender, striking, brown-eyed daughter of a famed leader of the movement for Macedonian independence. Her father was killed in a futile uprising against the Turks soon after her birth. With her mother, she was swept over the border in the tide of refugees, eventually adopted by a Serbian family, educated, became a village schoolteacher. A member of V. M. R. 0., disguised as a sewing machine salesman, made her a member of the organization, returned her to her birthplace. In a round-up of Macedonian peasants by Serbian police, she was beaten, saved from worse tortures only because...
Ambitious parents busy themselves in Belgrade trying to wangle their moppets into the Charles Dickens Kindergarten. There they learn from Serbian teachers what passes for English, the tongue in which Boy King Peter and his little brothers Prince Tomislav and Prince Andreja do most of their shouting, squabbling and chattering. Last week the social advantages of being an alumnus or alumna of the Charles Dickens Kindergarten were again evident in Belgrade as news went forth that a dozen scholars had been given a party by King Peter & Brothers at the white marble Dedinje Palace...
...Almost all of our toys are electric," the dazzled Serbian moppets were told by 11-year-old King Peter. An earnest child, His Majesty then sat down at the wheel of his electric automobile, commanded favored child subjects to climb in behind, sedately drove the car around his palace grounds. Meanwhile, 7-year-old Prince Tomislav was out on the Palace lake, piloting other moppets in the King's electric boat. Astonishing, however, was the turn of royal duty done by 6-year-old Prince Andreja. Moppets lisped in Serbian-English after the party that "Pwinth Andwea wode...
Meanwhile the Kingdom of Peter was settling down last week under the new Cabinet of Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch. Like nearly all his predecessors, new Premier Stoyadinovitch is of the ruling Serbian caste but pledged to administer Yugoslavia with due regard for her Croat, Slovene, Moslem and other assorted minorities. This time the Moslems have consented to enter His Majesty's Government, with Bosnian Moslem Mehmed Spaho strutting last week as Minister of Communications. The Croats, traditionally suppressed and embittered boycotters of every government at Belgrade, were for once benevolently on the fence, inclined to give Premier Stoyadinovitch a chance...
...crippled Serbian caught in a foolhardy attempt to blow up a railroad is ironically saved from a firing squad...