Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pairings for the U. S. Singles tennis championships in Philadelphia were drawn in gloomy belief that Jacques Brugnon and Bernard Destremau of France, Charles Hare of England, Ferenc Puncec, Frank Kukuljevic and Demeter Mitic of Yugoslavia will be summoned home for war duty before the tournament ends next week...
While observers were still wondering whether the first-born steppe-child of the Berlin-Moscow marriage would be a Budapest-Bucharest axis, an internal axis was born-the Serbs and Croats finally got around to sporazum in Yugoslavia...
Balkan term for Yugoslavia's long-deferred, long-discussed accord between the Serbian majority and the Croat minority is sporazum. Last week sporazum dramatically demonstrated how much Europe's tension had accelerated the growth of Balkan nationalism despite external pressure, internal dissension. In post-War Yugoslav history the sporazum was blocked by determination of 7,500,000 Serbs (Serbian Eastern Orthodox) not to share Yugoslavia's rule with 4,500,000 Croats (Roman Catholic), and the tenacity of Croatian struggles, the ruthlessness of Serbian repression, gave Croats the reputation of being one of the worst-treated minorities...
...reached we'll be obliged to go our separate ways. If the Serbs go left, we must go right. If they go right, we left. If war comes-we will then have no alternative but to go on the other side. . . . The clique in Belgrade . . . would sooner see Yugoslavia broken up and Serbia a small Balkan State again than share with us the dictatorial powers they have usurped. The tragedy of all absolute rulers is that they are in blinkers...
This hardly seemed the proper tone for future partners. Nor were the times ripe for calm negotiation. But as the sensations of Germany's conflict with Danzig dwindled before the bigger sensation of a German-Russian anti-aggression pact, Yugoslavia's quarreling factions reluctantly, slowly, drew together: sporazum was announced as ready for signing as soon as Yugoslavia's Regent Prince Paul agreed. A Balkan saying has it that the only difference between a Croat and a Serb is that a Croat is ten minutes late, a Serb ten minutes later. Last week it looked...