Word: slavia
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...Representing the U. S.: Ambassador Herrick, Ambassador Kellogg, Colonel James A. Logan (unofficial observer with the Reparations Commission); representing Britain: Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill; France: Finance Minister Etienne Clementel; Belgium: Premier Theunis; Italy: Finance Minister De Stefani. Representatives of Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia, Portugal, Greece...
...Warsaw, Polish capital, national ire scaled great heights. The press fumed, warned Danzig that, unless it were more careful, it might become heir to a military occupation. It also reminded the unhappy Germans in Danzig that Poland "has powerful friends" - France, Czecho-Slovakia, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia - and could carry out her threats...
...Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugo-Slavia), there is a violent election in progress...
Elections in the Balkans, particularly in Yugo-Slavia, work on an entirely different principle than do those in other lands. In the first place, much depends upon whether the Government in power wants to remain in power. Usually it does and, to achieve its desired end, it uses many means. Sometimes it is bribery, often ballot changing, occasionally death, imprisonment or illegal disenfranchisement-all of which efforts are destined to increase the Government's plurality...
...this was not all. Raditch's party (Croatian Peasant's Party), which formed the mainstay of the Opposition with 70 seats in the Skupshtina (National Assembly), was disbanded by order of white-whiskered Nikolai Pashitch, ironhanded Premier of Yugo-Slavia. All leaders and some 600 supporters were arrested. Angry faces emitted angry noises, but the inexorable soldiers stood by to see that the bubbling revolutionary spirit did not boil over...