Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a body blow to Italy. All figures were based on U. S. gold dollars. Italian imports of merchandise that totaled $14,650,000 in February 1935 dropped to $8,239,000 for February 1936. Exports were cut almost 50%. The country most effective in applying sanctions was Yugoslavia, which bought only $300 worth of Italian goods in February. The U. S. profited most from trading with outlawed Italy, her exports from November 1935 through February 1936 increasing $2,148,000 over the same period the year before...
...already been increased from 30,000 to 38,000 men by short-term enlistments. Most of Europe had been expecting this, received the news calmly. Not so the Little Entente. In Bucharest, Prague, Belgrade, statesmen sputtered melodramatically that if Hungary followed Austria's lead, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia would mobilize. For the record all three sent notes of pained protest to little Austria, reserving the right at a later date "to make public the measures" they might take to protect their interests...
Speaking in London for the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia) Rumanian Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu urged immediate and drastic League Sanctions. These had not yet been asked by the Belgians and the French, for M. Flandin had based his whole policy last week on patience, asking his British friends to read what they had signed. As Squire Baldwin still hesitated and His Majesty's Government appeared to desire that France should join in paying Adolf Hitler's price for sending a delegation to London, the French Foreign Minister finally said...
...Public Liability No. 1" Meanwhile in several London newsorgans deep rumblings in regard to Anthony Eden had begun. The Independent Conservative Evening News called him roundly "PUBLIC LIABILITY NO. 1" and remarked that His Majesty's Government are "bribing" the Government of Yugoslavia to "pretend" to support Sanctions by more than doubling the number of Yugoslav pigs permitted under British quota restrictions to be sold in the United Kingdom weekly...
Gustloff, had been shot and killed by a Jewish student from Yugoslavia, one David Frankfurter, who admitted frankly that his purpose was "political murder" (TIME, Feb. 17). What this meant to Adolf Hitler the emotional Realmleader told all Europe in a hastily arranged broadcast. Bawling at the top of his lungs, he cried: "You did not die in vain, Wilhelm Gustloff! My dear Party Comrade, what your Jewish murderer did not foresee was that he prepared the way for an awakening of millions and millions of Germans to a truly German way of life. ... In every office will hang Gustloff...