Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Bulgaria's Boris (who was in London before Munich), Greece's George and Rumania's Carol, Yugoslavia's Paul has this simple situation well in mind. Like them he knows the difference between good money and bad, between hard British sterling and phony Nazi export marks. He would naturally rather sell his corn, fruit, iron and bauxite to Britain than to Germany. What probably took him to London, and what had taken Boris, Carol and George, was to see if they could induce Britain to offer more good sterling for more Balkan products. The British...
...Kent, His Royal Highness cocktailed with old Oxford chums, dined with Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, teaed with the Prime Minister. Also, in long talks Paul discussed with George VI the future of 15-year-old King Peter II, whose Regent he will remain until Peter begins to rule Yugoslavia in his own right...
...original size as a result of the post-War treaties and plebiscites, which gave Serbia Montenegro, the Austrian provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the semiautonomous region of Croatia and other generous slices of Hungary. The population was thus trebled (to 15,000,000) and all the south Slavs (Yugoslavia means "land of south Slavs") were united. Yugoslavia became, after Rumania, the second largest Balkan State (area: 96,000 square miles...
Brother Slavs. The will of Alexander I named Prince Paul chief Regent and Dr. Radenko Stankovitch (a Serb) and Dr. Ivan Perovitch (a Croat) fellow Regents during Peter's minority. At that time Yugoslavia was still pretty much in the political orbit of War-victorious France. The shadow of a renascent, threatening Germany was beginning to fall over the Balkans, however, and neighboring Fascist Italy had never been too friendly with Yugoslavia. In fact, accomplices of the Croatian desperadoes who killed Alexander were subsequently harbored in Italy. And Yugoslavia drastically reduced her Italian trade when the League of Nations...
...international difficulties that Regent Paul inherited are still his chief headache, as was revealed by his trip to London last week. No less plaguing are Yugoslavia's internal troubles...