Word: vo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This excessively ancient title, now revived, recalls that a "leader of an army" was once a voevod (pronounced vo-ye-vod). In vain last week-Professor Nicolae lorga, once Carol's tutor, warned Parliament that the title came straight out of a Viennese operetta. Unmoved, the deputies and senators rested on their labors, some pointing out that "Grand Voevod" could be translated "Grand Duke...
...Prague, Czechoslovakia, the Socialist daily Právo Lidu claimed last week to have found out what was lately agreed in Rome between Il Duce and Prime Minister Count Stephen de Bethlen of the kingless "Kingdom of Hungary" now ruled by a regent (TIME, April 28). They were said to have agreed that-"Little Otto" should marry an Italian princess, and that Italy would back the Hungarian parliament in proclaiming the ascension of "King Otto" on Nov. 20 this year (the day he reaches his majority). To this restoration of a Habsburg, France and her allies (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia...