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WHO LET THEM KILL THE KING? 149 Kvaternik were in training at Borgotaro in Italy. A for- eign secret agent who contrived to visit this camp and to come away without being detected —and hquidated — has since described the place as a thoroughly organized and disciplined academy of homicide and sabotage, sup- ported and partially directed by Fascist operatives. In Hungary, at Janka Puszta within sight of the Yugoslavian frontier, there was another Utashi training camp for terrorists, conducted by Pavelic's lieutenant, Gustav Per- chetz, alias Horvath. Several of the Croatian rebels' in- structors at Janka Puszta are said to have been former officers of the Hungarian Army. Trained, equipped and subsidized, the plotters of Bor- gotaro were likewise plentifully supplied with informa- tion. They seem to have known every detail of Alex- ander's sea voyage, arrival at Marseille and reception by the French. And not since the assassination of the Aus- trian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Serajevo, June 28, 1914—the incident of Serbian provocation which was developed into a world war —have the preparations of murderous plotters so far excelled the precautions taken to safeguard a royal visitor. That the plot succeeded and the strong man of Yugo- slavia was eliminated from European power politics can- not be listed here among the masterstrokes of modem secret service. What really engages us is its seeming inevitability and the several mysteries now associated with the tragedy. Alexander was not a timid king — he had fought through the great war with the badly out- numbered, always hard-pressed and eventually exiled Serbian Army — but he was highly sensitive to the threat of assassination. It was known that for weeks at a time he would sleep in a different room of his palace each night, fearing a bomb or infernal machine. His spies