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Balkan Holidays: Italian Holidays (all business closes') National Holidays: New Year's Day; Liberation Day (April 25), for the ending of World War II; Labor Day (May 1); Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic (June 2); Victory Day (Nov. 4), for the ending of World War I.Yugoslav Holidays (all business closes) New Year's Day; Workers' Day (May 1); Anniversary of the Republic (Nov. 29), a big day featured by parades. Provincial holidays occur on July 7 (Serbia); July 13 (Monte-icgro); July 22 (Slovenia); July 27 (Croatia and Bosnia); Oct. 11 (Macedonia ).
Grey intervened successfully, with French and German cooperation, in the balkan holidays crisis of 1913, calling a conference of ambassadors in London. He tried the same device a year later, but Germany was then bent on war. While many of his colleagues shrank from involvement, Grey J"* not doubt that British interests and the "ob-n of honor" created by the entente made -.;..!] assistance to France imperative. Secret piewar military "conversations' between the French and British general staffs—unknown to most of the cabinet until 1911—enabled British intervention to be prompt and effective.Retirement. Grey was widely criticized for the secrecy of his prewar diplomacy and for his handling of wartime balkan holidays policy and negotiations with Italy. But few critics questioned his sincerity or integrity. When deteriorating eyesight and disillusion with wartime politics prompted him several times to offer his resignation, Asquith declined. |
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