Word: slavs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return to power of the Bratiano, French controlled, anti-Italian government, after a month's exile, comes news of a break in relations between Albania and Jugo-Slavia forced on by the latter because of the arrest of a Serb interpreter. The flimsy pretext discloses the immovability of Jugo-Slav opposition to Italy in Albania or anywhere else in the Balkan peninsula. There will be no war this time certainly, but unless imperialistic policy changes its color in the near future there will come sooner or later an explosion. Near Eastern rivalries no more intense set the world aflame...
...Slav fishermen and Eskimos, residents on a remote island in Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska, learned last week with intense surprise from the first vessel that has visited them in 15 years that Russia, Germany, Austria, Turkey are no longer empires. When the ship's captain attempted to put to sea before all these changes had been satisfactorily explained, the Slavic peasants forcibly restrained him another day, some contending to the last that his answers to their questions proved him a liar or one gone...
...rediscovered Slav island in Bering Strait see Russia...
...regarded herself as taking a purely defensive action against a people whose desire to cut off the southern provinces of the Hapsburg empire was not concealed. She would have been wiser, of course, had she taken more pains in the years preceding the war to conciliate her southern Slav subjects, and this was part of the plan of the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand...
...responsibility of Russia in encouraging the ambitions of Serbia in the years before the War, and in helping her at a critical moment must be judged in the light of her position as the leading Slav power in Europe, and as the champion of the small Balkan States. She had fought for them in 1876 and there was a close feeling of solidarity between the members of the orthodox church. But her decision to draw the sword in 1914 was due less to her sympathy for Serbia than to a desire to restore her prestige; and it was precisely because...