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After four years of abstention, the Croatian Party (advocating secession of Croatia from the rest of Yugoslavia) decided to take their 96 seats in the National Skupstina (Parlia-ment...
...intended to go to Belgrade, with the primary object of frustrating the Fiume agreement, not only because Croatia needs Fiume, but also because we have proof that the whole agreement was dishonest...
Pashitch, Premier of the last legislature, made an ostensibly sweeping victory in the parliamentary elections by capturing 120 seats out of a possible 318, which will form the new Assembly (Narodna Skupshtina). His program is to strengthen . the unity of the State, now threatened by a separationist movement by Croatia; to improve further relations with Bulgaria; to keep a watchful eye on the Magyars; and to make Yugo- slavia the strongest military power in the Balkans. This is not a peaceful policy, and success is purely hallucinatory...
...greatest man on the opposition is Radich, the radical peasant leader, or leader of the Croatian Agrarians. He if in favor of the separation of Croatia from the rest of Yugoslavia and setting his country up as an independent republic. His success not only in Croatia but in Dalmatia and Slavonia has alarmed the Government. In the last elections his party secured 49 votes, whereas, when the full returns from the present elections have been received, it is expected that he will have secured more than 70 votes...
...Serbia and its conquest, the pact of Corfu, July 20, 1917, between representatives of the Serbs and some exiled Croats, and the proclamation of a Jugo-Slav State; the collapse of Bulgaria and Austria in October, 1918, and the liberation of Serbia and Montenegro, also the detachment of Dalmatia, Croatia and the Slovene territories, Professor Coolidge came down to the formation of the new kingdom, which for many months, if not for years, will excite the attention of the world. "We hope for it a good future," he said, in closing...