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| | "The King is Dead, Long Live the Balkans! Watching the Marseilles Murders of 1934" : Watson Institute for ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The violent deaths of Alexander and Barthou were the successors to those of Ion Duca, Rumanian leader killed by right-wingers, and Dolfuss, chancellor of Austria, victim of Nazi thugs. |
 | | On the broader canvas, Franco-Yugoslav relations were stronger than ever, and Barthou was still in the process of crafting a web of alliances that would contain the threat of violence from European states unhappy with the status quo, the most powerful of which was Germany. |
 | | Barthou, and the other dead--three women, and the son of one of them--were killed by bullets from "unknown revolvers" of the same caliber as police-issue weapons (De Launay 1974:332) |
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