Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the identity of the royal party still a close secret, His Majesty boarded the Orient Express for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Clear across France the train's route was guarded by French soldiers standing within sight of each other along the roadbed...
...royal private car entered Yugoslavia and its regent Prince Paul greeted King Edward who had blossomed into tan shoes, shimmering grey suit, apricot shirt and red tie. Yugoslavian rebel circles announced plans to turn the English King's yachting cruise into a demonstration against the Yugoslavian Regency with organized shouting at every port of "Long Live Democratic Monarchy! Down with Dictatorship Royal or Otherwise! Welcome to King Edward As a Symbol of Our Destiny!" News of any such demonstrations Yugoslavia's iron censorship could be counted on to suppress...
...received Cabinet assurances that the Prime Minister will not leave England. Young Anthony Eden, the luckless Foreign Secretary, had to announce last week that Britain has further capitulated to Italy by abrogating upon specific demand by Benito Mussolini, the Mediterranean naval pacts she made with Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia as a "Sanction." German Questions as they emerged from the House of Commons' final debate : Is Adolf Hitler ever going to answer the diplomatic questionnaire sent him by Anthony Eden over three months ago? What chance is there that Germany may be appeased by being given some British mandated territory...
...race between two trained fleas around the brim of a felt hat. Climax was the Torch Relay from Olympia to Berlin which started fortnight ago, after the sun's rays had been used to kindle a fire in the ruins of the Temple of Zeus. At Paracin, Yugoslavia, last week, the flame went out when a runner got a defective torch which burned only two minutes. Faced with the absurd prospect of continuing the Torch Relay without a torch, he scrambled quickly into an automobile, rode on to the next relay point. Re-lit, the flame crossed the Hungarian...
...have paid no regard to His Majesty's exalted rank," declared the grave examiners of Belgrade College last week to Dowager Queen Marie and the Regents of Yugoslavia. "Unanimously we report that King Peter has passed his entrance examination for the third class of Belgrade College with great distinction...