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...whose father's court he had been a page. As the Great Powers mobilized (for their various and several reasons), and as the World War burst upon Europe, the wisdom of M. Pashitch's course was seriously in doubt. He lived to see it supremely vindicated, from the Serbian standpoint; for the peace treaties gave to Serbia additional territories of 59,400 square miles, including huge slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, and the whole of the little realm of Montenegro...
...historians have held that "Serbia was the only nation which really profited by the War." In 1918 the Serbian throne became that of Jugoslavia, "a little empire"; and on Aug. 16, 1921 Prince Regent Alexander became His Majesty Alexander I, King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Jugoslavs...
...grown steadily worse since the assassination of Croat leader Stefan Raditch in Parliament (TIME, July 28) and last week the numerous Croatian deputies clamored furiously for local autonomy, demanding for Croatia a sort of "dominion status" under the crown at Belgrade. Since King Alexander is no Croat but a Serbian he was exceeding vexed. After two days and nights of consultation His Majesty's patience with the politicians grew thin. Finally with vigorous pen strokes the king signed three decrees...
...Guillotine. Not for 41 years has the head of a woman been legally detached in France. Though murderesses have abounded, one and all have successfully pleaded: 1) Faithlessness of the murdered man; 2) Insanity; or 3) Beauty. But last week there was sentenced to the guillotine in Paris a Serbian murderess, Junka Kures, neither insane nor beautiful, and unbetrayed...
...William Kissam Vanderbilt. From Mrs. Vanderbilt's home Milan took an emerald worth $40,000, several other jewels of lesser value, one imitation pearl necklace, thirteen miniatures, three raw eggs. Milan insulted the Paris gendarmes who captured him, boasted that he was leader of a gang of Serbian thieves...