Word: yugo-slavia
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...mountain streams trickle through the Black Forest, unite at Donaueschingen, about 20 miles from the Swiss border and 40 miles from the French frontier, and the Danube (German, Donau) begins its 1725-mile flow through Wiirttemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary, Yugo-Slavia, Bulgaria and Rumania to empty itself into the Black...
...paper in front of him. U. S. Ambassador to France, Myron T. Herrick and Colonel James A. Logan, hitherto U. S. unofficial observer with the Reparations Commission, signed under Mr. Kellogg's name in the space reserved for the U. S. Representatives of Brazil, Greece, Portugal, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Czechoslovakia similarly exhibited specimens of their caligraphy. The agreement relating to the division of the proceeds of the Experts' Plan (TIME, Jan. 19) was in effect, each of the signatories having been vested with plenipotentiary powers...
...Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugo-Slavia), there is a violent election in progress...
Elections in the Balkans, particularly in Yugo-Slavia, work on an entirely different principle than do those in other lands. In the first place, much depends upon whether the Government in power wants to remain in power. Usually it does and, to achieve its desired end, it uses many means. Sometimes it is bribery, often ballot changing, occasionally death, imprisonment or illegal disenfranchisement-all of which efforts are destined to increase the Government's plurality...
...this was not all. Raditch's party (Croatian Peasant's Party), which formed the mainstay of the Opposition with 70 seats in the Skupshtina (National Assembly), was disbanded by order of white-whiskered Nikolai Pashitch, ironhanded Premier of Yugo-Slavia. All leaders and some 600 supporters were arrested. Angry faces emitted angry noises, but the inexorable soldiers stood by to see that the bubbling revolutionary spirit did not boil over...