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...Skupshtina or Parliament of Jugoslavia at Belgrade last week the leader of the Opposition, famed Stefan Raditch, was directing a furious filibuster against the Government's proposal to sign with Italy the Treaty of Nettuno (TIME, June u). That document would facilitate the "peaceful penetration" by Italian colonists of Dalmatia, which is adjacent to Croatia, the part of Jugoslavia from which Stefan Raditch hails. For three years Croat Raditch has blocked the treaty, driving the Jugoslav government to their wit's ends, since they are under heaviest pressure from Signor Mussolini to sign...
...stopped Assassin Ratchitch as he walked from the Skupshtina. He called at the Ministry of the Interior, sent in his card. It was returned with the message that he would not be received. Hurrying on to a police station, Punica Ratchitch gave himself up. "I shot in self defense at the men I killed," he said, "I thought they were going to attack me. As for Stefan Raditch, I have always worked for the interest of the electorate and the King. I am sorry that I shall be unable to serve so well in future. I am ready...
...heroic dead were buried last week at Zagreb, the chief city of Croatia. Their coffins had arrived from Belgrade on a train which carried all the unwounded Croatian Deputies, who solemnly and unanimously vowed before God never to re-enter the Skupshtina so long as the present cabinet of Prime Minister Velja Vukitchevitch remains in power. On a previous occasion the Croatian Deputies stayed away for five years after making a similar threat. Bitter and thrice bitter are Croatians against Serbs, whom they consider to have robbed them of even those rights which they possessed when Croatia formed part...
Jugoslavian Foreign Minister Vojislav Marinkovitch said that the cabinet would not resign, would seek to rush ratification of the Treaty of Nettuno through the Skupshtina in the absence of the Croatian Deputies...
...Skupshtina Battle. In the Skupshtina, Deputies of the Opposition irretrievably transgressed decorum by tearing the tops off their desks and flailing them to matchwood, while they screamed at Government leaders "Resign! Resign! COWARDS, Traitors, MURDERERS...