Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international conferences were an everyday occurrence, Mayor Schranz of 5,000-soul Nyon welcomed conferees on "piracy" in the Mediterranean to an E-shaped table in his flower-filled municipal assembly hall, remarking that some Swiss rivers empty into the Inland Sea. Nine nations were represented-Britain, France, Russia, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Greece, Rumania, Bulgaria, Egypt-and they were there to do something about the submarines that since the middle of August have preyed on neutral shipping attempting to run food, munitions and principally oil into Leftist Spanish ports. Very quickly French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos took the chair...
...Rumania's Sinaia last week the Foreign Ministers of Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia (the Little Entente) met over a case of champagne for their annual get together. This year's meeting was crucial. Dictator Mussolini for months has been trying to weld Yugoslavia to his Rome-Berlin axis, to smash thei Little Entente's solidarity and isolate "pink" Czechoslovakia, a Fascist headache because of her mutual assistance pact with Soviet Russia. Glowing with good food and drink, the diplomats spiked Mussolini's hopes by reaffirming their policy of sticking together, approving a hands-off policy...
...twelve: Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Egypt, Albania, Russia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Germany, France...
...class-conscious" to a degree, and a bit snippy about being "the best dressed woman in the British Royal Family," had changed her mind about visiting her sister-in-law. From British sources in Vienna next day came no more definite news than that the Kents were "leaving for Yugoslavia and would visit the Windsors en route...
Priests in heavily ornate robes stood in the pulpits of the principal Serbian Orthodox Churches in Yugoslavia last Sunday, and slowly read out the names of 141 members of Parliament, nine Cabinet Ministers, including that of Yugoslavia's Premier Milan Stoyadinovich. In Belgrade stolid worshipers listened in grim silence, but in other churches congregations throughout the countryside piously ejaculated "May He Be Damned!" as each name was pronounced...