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...real colonist is almost always an agrarian. The Latin and Slavic peoples in New England are filtering back into the rural districts and on to the lands...
Misery in the Jungle. Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, 25 years ago a railway car on a Chaco siding, is today a city of 25,000 souls. Typical of the region is its population: 90% foreign-born, 80% Slavic. Its mayor, blond, blue-eyed, Jewish José Pavlotzky, was until recently one of the most popular characters in the Chaco...
...century between Waterloo and Sarajevo, 35,000,000 people left the Old World for the New, half of them in three great waves- Celtic, Teutonic and Slavic-Mediterranean. This, says Hansen, was the greatest mass movement in history, and it was unorganized. But it had roots in almost every aspect of contemporary European society, and even in the Middle Ages...
Their leaders were made of softer stuff. To them liberty was less precious than that ephemeral thing called unity-the artificial union of diverse Slavic tribes into the post-World War I state called Yugoslavia. Although all the other artificially-created post-war States had disappeared or been dismembered in two short years-Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Rumania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania-Yugoslavia's leaders still hoped somehow to hold their own state together-and to keep their jobs. They were thinking not only of the tough, freedom-loving, German-hating Serbs, Macedonians, Montenegrins and Bosnians, but also of the Croats...
...dotted line. During those four days & nights much happened. British and Greek diplomats worked feverishly in Belgrade to swing the Yugoslav Government to their side. The British made it clear that if Britain won the war with Yugoslavia on the German side, Yugoslavia's dream of a pan-Slavic State in the Balkans would be ended. The Greeks made it equally clear that even permission to the Germans to send supply trains through Yugoslavia would be regarded as a "hostile...