Word: yugoslavian
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...isolationist in foreign affairs, Beard had personal experience of idealistic dabbling in European matters when he served as adviser to the Yugoslavian Government in 1927-28. Serbs appreciated his advice, but continued to oppress Croats, Macedonians, Hungarians. "That cured me," Beard says. He thinks Europe is just a big Balkans, that Americans can never solve Europe's problems. A long-term optimist, Beard believes that Fascism cannot come to the U. S. "Democracy," says he, "is a cause that is never won, but I believe it will never be lost...
...Balkans, Greece invaded Turkey, occupied Anatolia, was driven back after more than a year of fighting. Rumanian, Czech and Yugoslavian armies overran Hungary, seized livestock, locomotives, battled the Communist Government of Bela...
...King and Pope, and arranging to buy Italian war planes for Yugoslavia. While M. Delbos shook hands with Premier Stoyadinovich who is up to his neck in Fascism, the Roman press jeered "Delbos is wasting his time!" Under their late, assassinated King Alexander I (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934), the Yugoslavian people were taught, however, to think of France as their friend and Italy as their enemy and the new, pro-Italian policy of Premier Stoyadinovich is today anything but popular. This week cheering crowds attempted to form a procession behind the car of M. Delbos as he drove through Belgrade...
Most Rev. Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti, Apostolic Nuncio to Yugoslavia who earned his red hat by a pyrrhic victory. He negotiated a concordat with Yugoslavia so favorable to his Church that it led to religious rioting and the Yugoslavian Parliament dared not ratify it (TIME...
Serb Chucovich's Serb trustees first awarded the commission to Yugoslavian Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, withdrew it when local patriots and Federal art officials protested that a U. S. sculptor should have the job. Obligingly the trustees fixed on Denver's own Maillol-trained Sculptor Arnold Ronnebeck. But when Ronne-beck's design of a female figure cradling a covered wagon in one arm came before the Municipal Art Commission it was speedily vetoed. An advisory committee of local artists and architects then held a national contest for designs, invited able Sculptor Maurice Sterne to help pick...