Word: vukitchevitch
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...buried last week at Zagreb, the chief city of Croatia. Their coffins had arrived from Belgrade on a train which carried all the unwounded Croatian Deputies, who solemnly and unanimously vowed before God never to re-enter the Skupshtina so long as the present cabinet of Prime Minister Velja Vukitchevitch remains in power. On a previous occasion the Croatian Deputies stayed away for five years after making a similar threat. Bitter and thrice bitter are Croatians against Serbs, whom they consider to have robbed them of even those rights which they possessed when Croatia formed part of the Habsburg Austro...
Seemingly the rash students were bent upon egging Prime Minister Velja Vukitchevitch of Jugoslavia into a suicidal war with Italy; but circumstances were not lacking to extenuate their folly...
...provide that Italians may colonize and thus peacefully penetrate the Dalmatian coast of Jugoslavia, which lies directly across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. For three years the Jugoslav Parliament has delayed to ratify the Treaty of Nettuno. Last week the hot-head students believed that Prime Minister Vukitchevitch was about to yield to Italian pressure and press for ratification. Mounted ominously the hereditary hatred of rival peoples who face each other across a narrow sea. Suddenly came an insult to fire the charge of hatred. Jugoslav correspondents reported from the Italian port of Zara that a convention of Italian...
There King Alexander I, spruce, compelling, received Statesman Velja Vukitchevitch. Together these good friends had just broken the long deadlock among Jugoslav political blocs (TIME, Feb. 20) which had seemed to defy the possibility that a cabinet-any cabinet-could be formed. The wily Vukitchevitch by hook & by crook and King Alexander by imperative royal command had again induced the Jugoslav "national minorities" to enter a coalition headed by the "Radical" (reactionary) Vukitchevitch, now the chief bulwark of the Throne...
...Peritch (Radical) reports that no basis exists for a broad coalition cabinet. His Majesty then turned back to that other Radical who had resigned as Premier earlier in the week, M. Velja Vukitchevitch. King Alexander entrusts him with a mandate equivalent to "As you were !" and he sets out to reassemble his former predominantly Radical cabinet...