Word: slavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This fact is strikingly illustrated by the two great international crises of this year the murder of Chancellor Delltuss of Austria and the more recent assassination of King Alexander of Jugo-Slavia with its present Hungarian development. In the first case France and Italy, with the support of Great Britain, were united in opposing any extension of German influence into Austria. Since the little government was able to find no support It was willing to retreat and peace was preserved...
...Italy will defend the political independence of Austria and Hungary will throw European political circles into a state of confusion," said William P. Maddox, instructor in Government, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "However, this declaration will probably ease the war situation temporarily. The little entente, Czechoslovakia, Yugo-Slavia, and Rumania desire to preserve Austrian independence; France also followed this policy, with Germany in mind as the strongest possibility of danger. Now that Italy has entered into the affair the probabilities of Austro-Hungarian dependence upon Italy is greatly increased. The little entente doesn't want German political influence...
...Yugo-Slavia is one of the richest and last known regions in Europe, from the stand point of ancient civilizations, for this area was the first recipient of Original culture, and in its turn, transmitted the new traits to the rest of continental Europe...
...Conant '15, associate professor or Architecture, leaves America today for an extended tour of Europe, during which he will engage in excavations, research in Paris, and expeditions to various church ruins of Jugo-Slavia. The bulk of the expedition, which will keep him abroad until September, will be spent in further work on the excavations of the Monastery of Cluny in Burgundy, France, which he has been directing for seven years under the auspices of the Medieval Academy of America...
After a few weeks of preliminary study in Paris, Professor Conant will proceed to Jugo-Slavia to study the Byzantine churches of the 13th and 14th centuries, peculiar to the Balkan peninsula, under the guidance of the Jugo-Slavian government. From here he will go to Athens to take part in the excavation of the Parthenon, and will then return to the Abbey of Cluny. On returning from Europe he hopes to publish a survey of the architecture of the Balkan churches, which have received little attention from archeologists...