[BALKANS]: An excellent selection of Autograph Statements signed by a variety of famous Greek (2), Yugoslavian (2) ...

[BALKANS]: An excellent selection of Autograph Statements signed by a variety of famous Greek (2), Yugoslavian (2) and Romanian (1) personalities, beneath an original pen and ink drawing by the German-Swiss artist Robert Kastor, the well-executed works depicting each personality in head and shoulders poses, one page each, large folio, various places and dates, comprising, Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936) Eminent Greek Leader, eight times elected Prime Minister of Greece between 1910 and 1933. Known as the Leader of the modern Greece; Nikola Pasic (1845-1926) Serbian and Yugoslav Politician. Considered the most important Serbian political figure for 40 years, five times Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia between 1891 and 1918, and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1918, 1921-24 and 1924-26. An important politician in the Balkans, who, together with his counterparts like Eleftherios Venizelos in Greece, managed to strengthen their small and still emerging national states. Pasic states `The XIXth century brought freedom and equality to citizens; the XXth century brought freedom and equality to each nation«; Theodoros Diligiannis (1826-1905) Greek Statesman; Ante Trumbic (1864-1938) Croatian Statesman and Take Ionescu (1858-1922) Romanian Statesman, Prime Minister and Foreign affairs Minister 1921-22. Together with Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia (1928-2000) Son of Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Maria of Romania. A.L.S., `Tomislav of Yugoslavia«, one page, 8vo, Kent, 19th June 1948, on his personal printed stationery, bearing a crown and a capital ''T'', to Robert brown. Prince Tomislav states in part `King Peter has at the moment been living in the States or Canada, Prince Paul is in South-Africa, Kenia or Cairo, and my mother is in LondonÉ.If you write a letter to my mother to London, but not to the Yugoslav Embassy..« VG, 5 £100-150