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General York Serbia: Appointed honorary consul general york Serbia in New York for Serbia, he was an active agent for that country during World War I, and organized for relief work a corps of Columbia students who served in Serbia in 1915. He has published Electro-Magnetic Theory (1895) ; Immigrant to Inventor (1923), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1924; The New Reformation (1927) ; and Romance of the Machine (1930).
Yugoslavia took form as the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, built around the nucleus of the former Kingdom of Serbia and acknowledging the royal house of Serbia, only upon the dissolution of Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I. The Serbian kings lasted until the end of World War II, when youthful King Peter was exiled. Their fall paved the way for the socialist state we now know, with Tito (Josip Broz) at the helm.
In July 1914 the Irish question dominated British politics. No one in Britain was equally stirred by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo. When Austria-Hungary dispatched an ultimatum to Serbia, the British foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, offered to mediate—first between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, then between Austria-Hungary and Russia. Germany supported her Austro—Hungarian ally unreservedly and deliberately evaded his offers. |
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