Word: svetozar
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...brothers all-all demanded audience at the Royal Palace. Telegrams poured in from members of the Independent ("Pribichevich"; Democratic party. But to all appeals King Alexander remained deaf. He would not, to please the Three Brothers Pribichevich. release from custody last week Brother No. 4: that great Croatian Statesman Svetozar Pribichevich, "one of the founders of Jugoslavia" (founded...
...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...