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...Yugo-Slavia. Friction between Italy and Yugo-Slavia was generated, curiously enough, by the Zaniboni affair. At Trieste the Slavonian newspaper Edinost published accusations to the effect that the whole Zaniboni "plot" had been "framed" by Fascist leaders to embarrass the Opposition and serve as an excuse for further tyranny. Promptly Fascists attacked and severely damaged both the offices of Edinost and the Yugo-Slavian consulate at Trieste...
...once anti-Fascist and anti-Italian demonstrations took place in reprisal at Belgrade, Agram, Laiback, Spalato and other Yugoslavian cities. Apparently the Government of Yugo-Slavia made almost frantic efforts to quell these disturbances, which included the burning of Italian flags, attacks on Italian consulates and some scattered plundering of Italian-owned shops. Foreign Minister Nintchitch of Yugo-Slavia promptly despatched a note of apology to the Italian Government, and was reviled as a "traitor" by many of his countrymen for so doing. The incident appeared closed with the alleged arrival at Belgrade of an Italian note in which...
...latest reports emanating from the Near East are to be believed, another periodic Balkan crisis is at hand. Jugo-Slavia buzzes with rumors of an Albanian invasion, and fighting, which had broken out along the Salonikan frontier between Greek and Bulgarian troops, has just been halted by a truce Now Greece has sent a twenty-four hour ultimatum to her aggressive neighbor demanding reparations...
Four years ago Montenegro was joined to Yugo-Slavia? Ever since, Montenegrin Nationalists have grown weaker as they protested the union. Last week they were considered to have become so impotent that King Alexander and Queen Marie of Yugo-Slavia be?believed it safe to visit Cetinje, the capital of Montenegro...
...After the War a plebiscite was held among Montenegrins, and as a result they were joined in 1921 to Yugo-Slavia (i.e. "South Slavia", officially "The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes"). Montenegrin Nationalists have opposed this action, declaring the plebiscite "illegal and unfairly conducted...