ried
antecedents, their different legal systems and so forth--they will not
let Yugoslavia go to pieces. The work of construction and of more or
less strenuous, but necessary, criticism occupies by far the greater
number of the politicians. They have not yet, all of them, given their
adherence to this or that group, while new groups are arising--such as
the Agrarian, which being far more interested in the peasant's material
welfare than in anything else will give their alliance to that political
party which is prepared to assist the villages towards improving their
cleanliness and their manure.

THE YUGOSLAV POLITICAL PARTIES

The chief parties which in the new State's first two years evolved
themselves out of those that previously existed in the various parts of
Yugoslavia were:

(_a_) the Pa[vs]i['c] party, consisting chiefly of the Serbian
Old Radical party, together with Serbian parties from the
Voivodina and Bosnia.

(_b_) the Pribi[vc]evi['c] party, consisting chiefly of the
Croatian Coalition party, together with the Slovene Liberal
party and the Serbian parties in opposition to Pa[vs]i['c].

(_c_) the Christian Socialist party, under Koro[vs]ec,
consisting chiefly of Slovenes, together with a young group in
Croatia and other Clerical groups that are forming in Dalmatia
and Bosnia.

(_d_) the Star[vc]evi['c] party, under Paveli['c], consisting
of decentralizing parties in Croatia and Slavonia, and some
Croats in Bosnia.

(_e_) Socialists:

(1) the Slovene non-communistic Socialists.

(2) Korac's party, chiefly from Slavonia and Serbia.
This remarkable man, whose mind floats serenely in a body
that is paralysed, has twice been included in the Cabinet.
By many he is looked upon as too subversive, but he
believes that a revolution will come unless his department
acts in a revolutionary fashion. His programme includes
old-age pensions from the age of sixty--the people being
now enfeebled by the wars--and obligatory insurance with
regard to all those, including State employees in the
railway service and the post office, who do not enjoy an
independent existence, half the insurance being paid by
the employer and half by the employee, while with regard
to accidents the whole would be paid by the employer. He