a Greater Serbia, an occasional
Croat who would like a Greater Croatia, the Moslems have no aspirations
save for Yugoslavia. [They speak of "our language," since the word
"Serbian" has for them too much connection with the Orthodox religion,
the word "Croatian" with Roman Catholicism.] They are not indifferent to
the fact that to their own 600,000 in Bosnia they will add the 400,000
of Macedonia and Old Serbia, together with the 200,000 of Montenegro and
the Sandjak.... One was inclined to think that the least desirable
person of the new era in Sarajevo was the editor of the _Srpski Zora_
("Serbian Dawn"); his methods had a resemblance to those of Lenin, for
he printed lists of persons whom he called upon the Government to
prosecute, and when he was himself invited to appear in court and answer
to some libel charges he declined to go, upon the ground that the laws
were still Austrian and the judge a Magyar. He disapproved of such
tolerance, he disapproved of the Croats because they declined to
recognize that the Serbs had more merit than they, and as for
Yugoslavia--it was a thing of emptiness--he laughed at it and called it
Yugovina, the south wind. The only chance of life it had was if you
left the whole affair to the Serbs and then in two years it would be a
solid thing. It may be thought that the local Government, since they
left him at large, endorsed his theories; but they were reluctant to
give him a halo of martyrdom. They imagined that he was nervous because
he was losing ground--they acknowledged, though, that he still gave
pleasure to a great many Serbs, who were carried away by his appeals to
their old prejudices. It is undeniable that with the peculiar traditions
and customs of Bosnia, that province must for some years have a
Government--whatever method is evolved for the other parts of
Yugoslavia--whose eyes are not turned constantly to Belgrade. It might
even be well to set up a local Chamber in which all classes would be
represented. The Moslems and Croats would thus lose any lurking fear
that they were being swamped, and by coming into contact with other
political parties even the less cultured classes would gradually tend to
discard these fatal religious, in favour of political, divisions. A
somewhat primitive Balkan community cannot be expected of its own accord
to love henceforward in the name of politics those whom hitherto it has
hated in the name of religion. And as yet they are much more intereste