Word: yugo-slavia
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...dispute between Italy and Yugo-Slavia over Fiume? (TIME, Sept. 3, Sept. 17) varied in ratio last week to the temperature of the respective national temperaments...
Premier Mussolini had given the Belgrade Government until Sept. 15 to ratify an agreement reached by the Italo-Yugo-Slavian Commission on Fiume, whereby the political and administrative Government of Fiume is entrusted to Italy, Sussak and Porto Barros to Yugo-Slavia, with the proviso that both places are attached to Fiume for 99 years; the Free State to be governed by a mixed supreme government composed of delegates from Italy, Yugo-Slavia and Fiume. Last Week Mussolini began to mass troops in Istria, intending no doubt to scare the Belgrade Government...
This move had the effect of calling Mussolini's bluff on Italian pretensions. Instead of resorting to war he followed Yugo-Slavia's suit in filing the Italian copy of the Rapallo and Santa Margherita documents with the League. He then made a new offer to Yugo-Slavia, the terms of which were not published. It is understood, however, that for the present both parties will neither invite nor accept outside arbitration of their differences, but if they are eventually unable to reach an agreement the entire Fiume question may be placed before the Permanent Court of International Justice...
League of Nations. The alignment of the nations in the League showed that Italy and France were completely isolated in Europe. The most interesting feature in this respect was that the Little Entente nations (CzechoSlovakia, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia) showed themselves to be at variance with France, their so-called master...
...Fiume. The Italian and YugoSlavian delegates had agreed on Aug. 31 to let Fiume, subject of debate since November, 1918, be administered by a mixed commission of Italians, Yugo-Slavs, and officials of the Fiume Free State Government, controlled by Italians. Mussolini "magnanimously" gave Belgrade until Sept. 15 to ratify her delegates' decision. But circumstances have changed. Italy has seized Corfu. If Italy remains at Corfu, Yugo-Slavia will be so hemmed in that she cannot afford to allow her rights in Fiume to be abandoned to the master of the black-shirted legions, who first scowls at Greeks...