Word: slavia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ping-Vulcan and United Swedish were merged into Swedish Match Co.-Svenska Tands-ticksaktiebolaget-and Herr Kreuger had achieved the first of his many monopolies. The monopolistic aspect of Herr Kreuger's activities have caused most comment and criticism. In Poland, Peru, Greece, Ecuador, Hungary, Esthonia, Jugo-Slavia, Rumania, Latvia he has an absolute match monopoly, guaranteed by the governments concerned in return for money loaned them by Herr Kreuger. From the standpoint of a government that is not too proud to monopolize, business done with Herr Kreuger is good business. The government gets large sums of needed cash...
...Many Austrians believe that he eventually intends to take over Austria. Thus his grasp on Europe will reach out like a tentacle, holding a gigantic whip-hand. The whole thing comes down to his rivalry with Jugo-Slavia on the Adriatic...
...Jugo-Slavia, the college students themselves enforce a form of prohibition. From their central headquarters in a building which the government has set aside for the organization, the students direct about 20,000 people throughout the country in a movement for prohibition, and publish two dry newspapers. In this work, the young people take the lead, and gradually draw in the older...
...Hungarian race favors the return of the Habsburg dynasty, not so much because it has any special love for that Royal House as because the return of the Royal House has been forbidden and its members proscribed by the Allies, particularly by the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugo-slavia...
Once the policy of imperialism is admitted right, the wisdom of England's latest move is thrown into sharp relief by the new obstacles strewn in Mussolini's path in the Aegean and Adriatic by Roumania and Jugo-Slavia, obstacles well calculated to turn the attention of the Quirinal toward Egypt. The hand of France opposes Italy here no less infallibly than England elsewhere for its being hidden behind the foreign offices of Bucharest and Belgrade. Co-incident yesterday with the return to power of the Bratiano, French controlled, anti-Italian government, after a month's exile, comes news...