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...German parentage, who, by the postbellum changes of boundary-lines, was adjudged to have been born in Jugo-Slavia, and so of that nationality. His mother and father had lived in this country throughout the war, and had sent for their son at the first opportunity. But the Jugo-Slav quota was full, and the boy was shipped back, homeless and penniless. "A rotten deal" was what the official in charge of the case termed it; but he was helpless. Two young Roumanian girls were deported although their father, in this country, offered a thirty-thousand dollar bond for their...
...appearance, in his diction, in his facial expressions--Bon-Aim first and last, looks, acts, and is the Slav; he seems to have stepped from a play of lsben or a novel of Tolstoi or Checkhov. To appear at his best he needed a play in which the environment would not be unnatural to him; In Samson and Delilah he found such a play, from curtain rise to curtain fall it is imbued with the spirit of the Slav. In its frequent, terribly effective appeals to the stage; in its lack of sentiment and its slow, careful development...
...Italy trying to bottle up the Slavs, a few facts will show that such is not the case. Even if all of Italy's Adriatic claims were granted, the Jugo-Slavs would still have thirteen important ports, among which are Serenico, Spalato, Metovic, Ragusa, and Cattaro, all having excellent railroad communications with the illterior. Yet it is said that Fiume and not any of the above is the natural port of the Balkan Slavs. The falsity of such a statement is plainly evident from the Austrian official trade statistics of 1915. Here we find that only 7 per cent...
...Croats," and the settlements of the Congress of Berlin, with Austrian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina causing intense disappointment of the Serbs. Nevertheless, there was the Austrian alliance and its predominance in Serbia till the accession of Peter Kaigevyevich in 1903. Yet with all Serbia's troubles, the Jugo-Slav idea blossomed and bore fruit in the minds of the leaders and there was linguistic reform and a literary revival, despite jealousies, religious feelings, the Austrians playing off one against the other...
...Ferdinand, although he was a friend of the Jugo-Slave, and the beginning of the World War. Swiftly sketching the invasion of Serbia and its conquest, the pact of Corfu, July 20, 1917, between representatives of the Serbs and some exiled Croats, and the proclamation of a Jugo-Slav State; the collapse of Bulgaria and Austria in October, 1918, and the liberation of Serbia and Montenegro, also the detachment of Dalmatia, Croatia and the Slovene territories, Professor Coolidge came down to the formation of the new kingdom, which for many months, if not for years, will excite the attention...