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Greater than that great Croatian statesman Svetozar Pribitchevitch (see above) was memorable Stefan Raditch. When drunk this tubby Croat caroused like a wild walrus. When sober and not occupied with affairs of state he kept a bookstore in Zagreb. Drunk or sober Stefan Raditch could set the voters of Croatia on fire as no one else could. As leader of the Opposition he was foully shot down in the Jugoslavian Parliament by a Government Deputy (TIME, July 2, 1928). In Paris last week Croat Raditch's son, Vladimir Raditch, won his academic degree at the school of Higher Social...
Croatian Patriot & Savant Milan Sufflay as he walked down a street in Zagreb, Jugoslavia. He died in 48 hours...
...reporters typed stories of this happy birthday, came other more sinister reports. In changing the title of his country from "The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes" to the "Kingdom of Jugoslavia," Dictator-King Alexander has set boiling afresh a stew of acute racial feeling. In the Cathedral at Zagreb a sharp-eared sacristan discovered a ticking bomb timed to explode during the King's birthday mass. Railway employes fished a 60-lb. bomb off the tracks of the Zagreb-Belgrade railroad just before the special train of a royalist delegation was due to pass. In Zagreb railway station...
...charming, he declared, and could be bought for $20,000. Dealer Demotte laughed, said that he had already bought that diptych, paid only $10,000. The bewildered Viennese returned to Europe, went to Zagreb, investigated. He found that a copy had recently been substituted for the original...
Last month Leonida Pitamitz, Jugoslav Minister to the U. S., made a delicate call upon Frederic Allen Whiting, secretary of the Cleveland Museum. Politely he informed Director Whiting that the diptych in the museum was stolen-goods, that it belonged to the Zagreb Cathedral. Director Whiting removed the diptych to a safe deposit vault, awaited developments...