Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...streets were cleared at rifle point after a 10 p. m. curfew, and the Cabinet stayed on in session getting telephone reports from police headquarters on new arrests until the total had reached 255, including former Premier Colonel Gueorguieff and a delegation of returned Bulgarian exiles from Yugoslavia...
...George of Kent returned from Yugoslavia, London papers having it that the Duchess spent most of her time there "resting and sewing'' upon a layette. Until next spring they expect to rusticate at 40-room "Adsdean" in Sussex, loaned by Queen Victoria's Great-grandson Lord Louis Mountbatten who normally rents it for $250 per week...
...kingship twelve years ago, and his childless ex-Queen divorced him recently (TIME, July 15). Two months ago Marina let it be understood that she, at any rate, is fecund. Last week the British public was supposed to think that the prospective young mother was merely resting in Yugoslavia at Prince Paul's romantic Bohinjsko Castle where she became engaged. The public was not supposed to notice that Premier Tsaldaris, after announcing at Athens that he was going to Germany to take a water cure, also turned up at Bohinjsko...
Since small paragraphs about the Duke and Duchess of Kent had to appear, as usual,, in London society columns, the Duke was reported to be "fishing during the day" while Premier Tsaldaris conferred at the Palace with the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul, and Yugoslavia's Dowager Queen Marie. Marina had the best possible excuse for not going fishing with her George. All Greece believed that she was fishing with Tsaldaris. In London the Duke was covered by Court intimations that "His Royal Highness avoided meeting Premier Tsaldaris, since His Majesty's Government would not permit such negotiations...
...satisfy "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," famed Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual squatter in the post of Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and nemesis of the Habsburgs. In his official newsorgan Prager Presse, Dr. Benes fired a double-barreled editorial warning as the spokesman of the Little Entente (Czechosloakia, Yugoslavia & Rumania). First he declared that the Little Entente "will accept the last consequences [i. e. war] to oppose not only restoration but the mere return of Otto and Zita on Austrian soil." Second, he threatened: "An attempt at restoration would throw the Little Entente States into an alliance with Germany against...