Word: svetozar
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...groaned hunger-striking Mme Bosilka Pribitchevitch. But Adam Pribitchevitch, Valerian Pribitchevitch and Col. Milan Pribitchevitch starved stoically. They were grimly, emptily resolved that King Alexander should not banish to the remote, unsanitary village of Brus their brother, that great Croatian statesman Svetozar Pribitchevitch "One of the Founders of Jugoslavia" (TIME, June...
...Svetozar Pribitchevitch had started the family hunger strike, was hunger-striking manfully himself last week in the Belgrade Hospital. Svetozar Pribitchevitch was not sick but has been locked up in Belgrade Hospital for months, the Government not daring to throw him into Belgrade jail. As Pribitchevitches grew weaker last week the Government seemed to grow more relentless, suppressed all news of the hunger strike, seemed content to let Svetozar Pribitchevitch die. Then suddenly King Alexander relented...
...custody in which Brother Svetozar Pribichevich languished was peculiar. He was not in jail, but in a hospital. He did not particularly mind being in a hospital. What enraged all the Pribicheviches was the Government's announced resolve to banish Brother Svetozar Pribichevich for a second time to the tiny Serbian village of Brus, 20 miles from the nearest railway. When told last week that he would be sent back to Brus, Svetozar Pribichevich, a small, lean man, dramatically went on a hunger strike. Wailed Mme Bosilka Pribichevich: "My Svetozar will die! He will die!" "Svetozar," cried Col. Milan...
...Dictatorship" is meant King Alexander's concentration of almost all power in the hands of himself and hard-eyed, hard-jawed General Pera Zivkovitch. Prime Minister (TIME, Feb.11, 1929). When Founder Svetozar Pribichevich saw the Croats playing a poor second to the Serbs in the new government, he promptly protested, was banished to Brus. There he would have remained but for another, a more potent founder: Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk...
Sternly President Masaryk intimated to King Alexander that it simply would not do to keep Svetozar Pribichevich at Brus Result: he was transferred to the Belgrade Hospital, one of the cleanest and most pleasant places in Belgrade. To help her husband get out Mme Bosilka Pribichevich presently announced: "I have gone on a hunger strike...