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...Commons by speaking indefatigably on topics about which most people were uniformed. For the sake of notoriety he was always ready to raise points on foreign affairs about which he himself knew only what I told him. for instance, I kept the public well posted through him about the Serbian regicides and the folly of our government's renewing relations with that country. So when Servia plunged us into war, he issued a vehement article and placarded the country with posters announcing TO HELL WITH SERVIA...
...Thorwaldsen ? are Aristide Maillol, whom Clive Bell, English oracle of modernism, Sheldon Cheney and many others consider the greatest sculptor alive; Bourdelle and Gaudier, other Frenchmen; Jacob Epstein (an American, by the way) and Eric Gill, an Englishman; Grancusi, Bohemian carver of geometrical solids; Mestrovic, the Serbian; Archipenko...
Because of frequent raids on Serbian territory by the Bulgarian Comitadji*, Yugo-Slavia sent a stiff ultimatum to Bulgaria, declaring that unless these raids ceased Yugo-Slavia would cross the frontier. A war was thought to be averted by the prompt mediation of Premier Poincaré of France, who suggested a conference for this week to settle the question. Both Governments agreed...
...assailant, Millutone Raitch by name, is a Serbian bank clerk working in Budapest, capital of Hungary. He ascribed his action to personal motives. No political significance is attributed to the incident, although it has aroused great indignation among the people...
...Roughly they might be specified as the Urbanites. Ostensibly they are the intellectuals of Bulgaria who have rallied to the standard of Professor Zankoff in Sofia, now their premier. But the most strident, if not the most numerous, ingredient of this conglomerate mass is the old pro-German, anti-Serbian group. And in this group lie germs of further Balkan troubles. The states which have hitherto been able to keep on good terms with Agrarian Bulgaria, and especially Serbia, will not look with pleasure on the advent of another party of such different standards; and it has been well proved...