Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austria desired not territory, but merely wished to keep what she had got. In sending an ultimatum to Serbia, she 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...
...recent good will flight of the American aviators has heightened interest in the Latin-American republics to the south of us. For most persons curious in the world there is a peculiar alluring enchantment in any lands beneath the Southern Cross. Certain it is that there are few more fascinating stories than those of the rise of the nations of South America. At 10 o'clock in Harvard 2 Professor Haring will tell History 56 and the Vagabond of the genesis of the Argentine Republic...
...Experiment of Southern Independence", Professor Schlesinger, New Lecture Hall, History...
...Majesty Alexander I, King of the Slavs, Croats and Slovenes, "Jugoslavs," or "Southern Slavs," this news of a naked man was worse than scandalous. It meant trouble for King Alexander in furthering his pet scheme to create a Royalist dictature with himself as Dictator. This scheme has matured so rapidly of late that even the Croatian Opposition leader, fiery Stefan Raditch, has been won over to support His Majesty. But the revelation of last week was most unsettling, cast a black stigma on the Royalist cause. A lady-in-waiting revealed that the King said bitterly to Queen Marie (daughter...
Since October Chang has been wringing $300,000 a month additional tribute out of Sun Chuan-fang, the comparatively benevolent despot at Shanghai, in payment for not attacking Sun in the rear, while Sun has been defending Shanghai from the Southern Nationalist (Cantonese) Army (TIME...