Word: yugo-slavia
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...Turkish Delegation, and Eleutherios Venezelos, head of the Greek Delegation, had a verbal tiff. The trouble was over a discussion of a commercial convention. It had been agreed that the convention between Turkey and the Great Powers should last for five years, and only two years for Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Greece. Ismet Pasha suddenly announced that, as Turkey did not do much business with Rumania and Yugoslavia, he would be willing to let the period stand at two years, but in view of the fact of commercial relations between Greece and Turkey being extremely extended he wanted the convention...
France is owed, principally by partially insolvent or bankrupt countries (Russia, Belgium, Yugo-Slavia, Rumania, Greece, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Italy, Montenegro, Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary and Austria), a total of 15,282,000,000 gold francs ($2,949,426,000). Hence the French feel justified in excluding their debts to England and America from consideration in their budgets, until the matters of Germany's reparations and the debts of other nations to France can likewise be considered...
Hungary is in a different position from Austria. Austria is a republic by the will of a majority of the people. Hungary is a monarchy by popular sentiment, but deprived of a King by the will of the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Yugo-Slavia, Rumania). The Habsburgs were not excluded from returning to the throne of Hungary by the Treaty of Trianon, and, despite the endeavors of the Little Entente through the Council of Ambassadors, the Habsburg family still remains eligible to reascend the throne, providing the Allied Powers approve. Czecho-Slovakia sees a danger to her new-won autonomy...
...Princess received the island as a marriage dowry; Yugo-Slavia claimed it under the treaty of Saint Germain. Princess Elizabeth stated that she was no longer a Habsburg, having renounced her rights on the occasion of her marriage; therefore Yugo-Slavia had no right to sequester the property. The case was settled by a payment of $575,000 to the Princess...
...brothers met at dawn and fought it out with scythes. The last two brothers were dangerously wounded and are in hospital. The first two brothers are in jail awaiting long sentences. The two sisters are free looking for two more brothers. All this happened at Svatinca, a village in Yugo-Slavia...