extremely sweeping. While the Radicals and
Democrats returned with close on one hundred members each, the
Koro[vs]e['c] party met with comparative disaster, and the Star[vc]evic
group was overwhelmed. With about fifty members apiece, the Communist
and the Radi['c] parties gave expression, roughly speaking, to the
discontent produced by the unsettled conditions--unavoidable and
avoidable--of the new State's first two years. The Moslems came back
with nearly thirty members, and a healthy phenomenon for a country in
which the peasant so largely predominates was the success, apart from
the Radi['c] Peasant party, of the Agrarians with some thirty deputies,
and the Independent Peasant party with eight.

The Italian Press disposed in five lines of the historical Act of Union
which occurred when the delegates of the Yugoslav National Council were
received by the Prince at Belgrade on December 1, 1918. In the address,
which was read by Dr. Paveli['c], it is recorded that "the National
Council desires to join with Serbia and Montenegro in forming a United
National State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which would embrace the
whole inseparable ethnographical territory of the South Slavs.... In
the period of transition, in our opinion, the conditions should be
created for the final organization of our United State." And there is a
dignified protest against the Treaty of London and the Italian
encroachments which even went beyond that which the treaty gave them. In
his reply the Prince, among other remarks, said that "in the name of His
Majesty King Peter I now declare the union of Serbia with the provinces
of the Slovenes, Croats and Serbs in an indivisible kingdom. This great
moment should be a reward for the efforts of yourselves and your
brothers, whereby you have cast off the alien yoke. This celebration
should form a wreath for the officers and men who have fallen in the
cause of freedom.... I assure you and the National Council that I shall
always reign over my brothers and yours, and what constitutes the Serbs
and their people, in a spirit of brotherly love.... The first task of
the Government will be to arrange with your help and that of the whole
people that the frontiers should comprise the whole nation. In
conjunction with you I may well hope that our powerful friends and
Allies will be able justly to appreciate our standpoint, because it
corresponds with the principles which they themselves have proclaimed
and for the