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...leader of the Croatian Peasants, who favor an independent republic for Croatia, is Stefan Raditch. In the last National Assembly, the Raditch Party had 70 seats and proved itself a great nuisance to the Government. On the eve of a new general election, Premier Pashitch had Raditch and several others arrested. Subsequently, a court ordered their release; but the Government quickly found more evidence against them and had them rearrested. But this was not enough; the aged Premier, who swore to fight rather than to yield to the federative demands of his political enemies, ordered the dissolution of the Peasants...
...this opposition, however, the Croatian Peasants' Party is not recognized and will not be allowed, even if it desires, to sit in the next Parliament. The Government majority is therefore virtually 75. Once again Serbian methods have won another election ; once more the Government has scored a great victory; but, as formerly, at least half the electorate remains hostile to Nikolai Pashitch and all he stands...
Last week, Stefan Raditch, leader of the Croatian autonomists (i.e., those advocating total separation from the Serb Kingdom and self-rule as an independent republic) was found under a bed in a house in Zagreb, the address of which had been supplied by a Radical turned traitor. Police dragged Raditch, who is under a ban for being in league with the Bolsheviki, from under the bed by the heels, cast him into prison...
...this was not all. Raditch's party (Croatian Peasant's Party), which formed the mainstay of the Opposition with 70 seats in the Skupshtina (National Assembly), was disbanded by order of white-whiskered Nikolai Pashitch, ironhanded Premier of Yugo-Slavia. All leaders and some 600 supporters were arrested. Angry faces emitted angry noises, but the inexorable soldiers stood by to see that the bubbling revolutionary spirit did not boil over...
...eradication of these political parties gives Premier Pashitch by virtue of law what he could not get by the ballot-a parliamentary majority. The law is called the State Defense Act and prohibits Stefan Raditch, "stormy petrel of the Balkans," leader of the Croatian autonomists, from entering into arrangements with foreign countries. Raditch had become a close friend of the Moscow autocrats; whereupon, after mature thought, Premier Pashitch snapped his fingers and the law became operative...