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First day of the conference the Ministers met for three and a half hours; called on Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragisha Cvetkovitch; lunched with Prince Paul, Senior Regent, and Princess Olga at their white castle overlooking the Danube; left calling cards at the homes of Co-Regents Dr. Ivo Perovitch and Dr. Radenko Stankovitch and of Dr. Vladimir Matchek, the Croat leader. Second day they talked again, dined at the Officer's Club, made pleasant, diplomatic speeches. Third day they conferred again, went back home...
Instead, Carol and Mihai showed up near Vrsac, a Yugoslav town close to the Rumanian border, which is noted for its good wines and hunting. There, they were met by the polished, cultured, Oxford-educated, pro-Ally Prince Paul, Senior Regent of Yugoslavia, and the Yugoslav Premier, Dragisha Cvetkovitch. Of all Rumania's Balkan neighbors, Yugoslavia is its only real friend (Rumania annexed territory from the others after World War I). Rumania and Yugoslavia, once members of the French-inspired Little Entente, are now members of the Balkan Entente, which is scheduled to meet at Belgrade next month. Dictator...
Prime Minister: Dragisha Cvetkovitch...
...this gave venerable Dr. Vladimir Matchek, democratically minded Croatian peasant leader, 'a powerful but dangerous weapon in his battle for Croatian rights. Three weeks ago he announced that Croatia would ask for German protection rather than continue to submit to Serbian rule. When Yugoslavian Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch began negotiations, in the midst of Balkan alarms, Dr. Matchek took time out to say what he thought of the people he was dealing with. Said he: "We Croatians are wholeheartedly for an agreement, but if none is reached we'll be obliged to go our separate ways. If the Serbs...
...Paul, Senior Regent of Yugoslavia until 15-year-old King Peter comes of age, has lately been doing much thinking about Croat grievances, with an eye to settling them before Messrs. Hitler and Mussolini make a big gesture of stepping in and doing it for him. Last February conciliatory Dragisha Cvetkovitch replaced unpopular Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch and promptly began to negotiate with old Dr. Matchek for the settlement of the Croat-Serb dispute. Last week Serbs and Croats celebrated what they considered the resolution of the Croat problem...