Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David Frankfurter, a nervous, hollow-eyed young Jew born in Yugoslavia, took the train from Berne last week to the Swiss winter sports resort of Davos. He did not go there to ski, and, though Davos boasts a fine meteorological observatory, he was not interested in the weather. After hanging around town for three days, he asked his way to the home of Dr. Wilhelm Gustloff, physicist at the Davos observatory. Bustling Frau Gustloff ushered him into the study. When the Doctor rose to greet him, David Frankfurter whipped out a pistol, sent five bullets crashing into his body. Wilhelm...
Meanwhile King Carol II of Rumania, also in Paris on his way home from the funeral of British George V, personally telephoned new French Premier Albert Sarraut to ask that his entourage of French detectives be called off. Since the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia occurred when M. Sarraut was Minister of the Interior and his careless Cabinet was largely blamed (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934 el seq.), M. Sarraut last week made an exceedingly firm reply to King Carol...
...secured adoption of a proviso that further decisions by the League Sanctions Committee of Eighteen are not in themselves operative but "subject to the political decision of the governments." For the first time since Sanctions were adopted, Baron Aloisi was heard to laugh. The conditional assurances of France, Turkey, Yugoslavia and Greece of aid to Britain in certain circumstances, if the Empire is menaced by Italy and asks for help, were read by Mr. Eden into the League record...
...always handy at the scene of accidents. Target of two clumsy would-be assassins, survivor of two duels, a railway bridge wreck and several motoring mishaps; the statesman who was the responsible Minister of Interior when scandalously inadequate police protection made possible the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia on French soil, M. Albert Sarraut is an otherwise colorless Radical Socialist wheelhorse whose favorite mot is: "I only need twelve days to recover from anything...
traveled across the Balkan Peninsula in his royal train to hunt ducks with Yugoslavia's King Peter...