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...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...
...uncultured barbarians. They complain that their old agreements with the Serbs for self-government, fair taxation and civil liberties were abrogated by a dictatorial Serb Government. Their list of grievances - suppression, little education, commercial exploitation - is long. They have loudly demanded autonomy; and, agitating for it, Croat Leader Vladimir Matchek, dubbed the "Croatian Gandhi" for his passive resistance campaigns, has led runs on Serb banks, organized farmers' strikes and riots to hamstring the Government. Though nominally exponents of peasant-democ racy, in recent years some Croats began to drop hints that an approach to Germany might be the only...
...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...
Without bothering to trump up charges, the royal police pounced on Rev. Anton Koroshetz, Slovene minority leader and on Dr. Vladko Matchek, Croat minority leader who was dragged at night out of a restaurant at Zagreb, hustled off to Belgrade without being permitted to say good-by to his wife & children...
Without a trial, Dr. Matchek was simply informed by Belgrade's Police Chief that "during His Majesty's pleasure" he will be interned in a village near ominous Sarajevo, birth village of the World War. Father Koroshetz will be interned at another village. Belgrade newshawks heard that King Alexander "is now determined to crush Croat and Slovene discontent with iron severity." How did His Majesty, recently reported suffering from a bad case of nerves, suddenly recover and become so cocky? The answer seemed to be "Sinaia...