Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week before he began shooting Rumanian Nazis. And the elaborate gold dinner service trotted out for King Carol at Buckingham Palace had just been put away when another royal guest suddenly turned up last week. He was His Royal Highness Prince Paul, 45-year-old chief Regent of Yugoslavia...
...primer of the Balkans would begin by describing them as a backward group of peewee States (Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece) whose combined outline is wedge-shaped like South America's. Like the South American States, the Balkans have been characterized by their propensity for rapid and explosive political change, by their archaic society, which has kept the land largely primitively agricultural and industrially undeveloped. The 310,000 square miles of Balkan territory are naturally rich. Economically this territory is important to both Germany and England because it is a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured...
...square-mile grab was enough. In Sofia, Bulgaria, grab fever rose high at week's end, the 19th anniversary of the Treaty of Neuilly. Through Sofia's streets day before the anniversary milled a defiant crowd of 20,000 who demanded land back from Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece. Martial law was declared, firemen turned their hoses on demonstrators, 1,000 were arrested. Chances are that the Bulgarian grab fever will simply have to subside without treatment. Bulgaria is fenced in to the south by Yugoslavia, Rumania, Greece and Turkey. Military leaders of these nations were meeting last week...
Little Entente. One bulwark erected by Dr. Benes when he was "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman" had not collapsed last week, the Little Entente of Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia...
...British recently have sent confidential emissaries to King Carol and next month His Majesty will make a State visit to King George. Last week Rumania and Yugoslavia were exerting pressure on their neighbor Hungary to keep her from grabbing such a great slice of Slovakia & Ruthenia as would pinch off the whole eastern end of Czechoslovakia. This would give Hungary and Poland a common frontier, would mean that Rumania and Czechoslovakia would no longer be adjoining States...