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...After outlining the important part played by the League in settling the boundary dispute between Yugo-Slavia, Greece and Albania in 1921, when they sent an international commission to the latter country which was successful in arriving at a settlement of the dispute by mutual consent: "I myself heard the Foreign Mimster of the invading State (Yugo-Slavia), speaking at the tribunal of the Assembly of the League, declare that the relations of the two countries were now excellent and friendly, and attribute that happy result to the mediation and influence of the League...
...recent Yugo-Slavian elections demand a closer inspection than the mere tabulation of results. This is the first Parliament to be elected in the new State of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes since the elections for the provisional Constituent Assembly in November, 1920, and is therefore of some importance in Balkan politics...
...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...
...election campaign throws light on the measures adopted by the Gov- ernment to suppress unwelcome factions. In the first instance, the Magyars, unwillingly incorporated into Yugo-Slavia; together with hundreds of Turks and Macedonian voters, were swept off the voters' list. Next, opposition manifestoes were confiscated by the Government and unfavorable newspapers suppressed Lastly, the whole gendarmerie was combed out before the elections and reduced as far as possible to the faithful supporters of the Government...
...Yugo-Slavia, of course, protested to the League of Nations against the acts of aggression by the Bulgarian outlaw bands...