Word: yugo
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...that the staunchest defense of Karolyi comes from one of his Bolshevik brethern, Professor Jaszi-Jakabo-vics in a most unreliable book on the revolution. Karolyi fled to Gablonz in Czecho-Slovakia after his resignation, thence to Austria, and on to Italy, whence he was forced to go to Yugo-Slavia. Now he is about to settle in Canada...
France, hardly able to make ends meet, is to lend Yugo-Slavia 300,000,000 francs ($18,135,000). This step was decided by the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chamber of Deputies...
...reason for these loans is that France has particular interests to safeguard in Balkanized Europe. The loan to Yugo-Slavia not only stimulates the Little Entente, but helps French trade coming from the Near and Middle East. The loan to Poland contained a definite sub rosa military understanding that Poland was to assist France in case of attack by either Russia or Germany; or, in other words, she was to act the part of Belgium in North-Eastern Europe...
...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...
...Chicagoan vaporings assert that " the British syndicate, which comprises a dozen big banks and shipping companies, proposes to reconstruct the railroads in Austria, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia, and possibly also Italy and Germany, and eventually Russia, in one vast private undertaking...