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...which Italy would allow Yugoslavia to annex the Slav section of the Free State. It is suggested that the administration of the ports of Fiume and Porto Barros shall be under a single mixed commission. It is understood that Signor Mussolini, Italian Premier, made urgent representations to M. Pashitch, Yugoslavian Premier, that the whole question of Fiume be settled once and for all, pointing out that the ports had been inactive since the end of the War and that all the commerce, which at one time centered in those ports, had been diverted to other parts of the world...
...shots were fired at Premier N. Pashitch as he was entering his car in front of the Narodna Skupshtina (National Assembly). The Premier saved his life by falling to the floor of the car, but was wounded in the hand...
...Premier Pashitch is one of the great schemers of the Balkans. As far back as 1881 he conceived the idea of a Greater Serbia, and it was largely through his ingenuity and foresight that the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes came into existence. He is also responsible for getting the present Constitution through the National Assembly-no easy feat in view of the Creation opposition. He is now 75 years of age and is known as the " Grand Old Man of Serbia" or the " Father of the Constitution...
...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...
...Pashitch is Serbia's veteran politician and chiefly remembered in Western Europe for his connection with the arch-schemer Venizelos in forming the Balkan League. Pashitch was formerly a radical, but since his rise to power he has been gradually forced to relinquish his radical tendencies in favor of conservatism...