land not on people because they
can farm it, but because they were heroes in the War.[35] It is a matter
for congratulation that the measures now in force are not definite--the
final dispositions will be taken in two or three years.[36] And perhaps
then some part of the counsel of Radi['c] may be adopted--Radi['c],
whose critics are never weary of denouncing him for being a demagogue, a
firebrand and various other things, but who by that time may very likely
be a Cabinet Minister. He advises that there should be a compromise,
that the ownership of land in Yugoslavia should not be strictly
individualist nor strictly communist, but that while preserving the
spirit of the _zadruga_ (ownership by the community) there should also
be the mobility of individual ownership.

But in the field of Agrarian Reform there has been one excellent plan,
the transference of men from the unfertile districts of Montenegro and
Lika, also of landless men from the Banat and Ba[vc]ka, as also Serbs
from Hungary and Slovenes from Istria, to those parts of Kossovo and
Macedonia which were lying ownerless. The Albanians in Kossovo are
mostly shepherds, and the land, which by Turkish law had belonged to
"God and the Sultan," was now at the disposal of the Yugoslav
authorities. Down to the spring of 1922 they had placed some 35,000
persons in these regions, the Montenegrins being generally allocated to
an Albanian neighbourhood, for they are accustomed to the idiosyncrasies
of the Shqyptart. At first the Albanians viewed the new settlers with
disfavour, but now so great a sympathy has developed between them that
on various occasions the Montenegrins have remonstrated with the
gendarmes for the excessive order they enforce and which, the
Montenegrins say, you really cannot ask of an Albanian. Against the
Montenegrins the Albanians do not care to use their rifles, since the
custom of blood-vengeance is in the Montenegrin blood. In fact, these
Albanians are very fair neighbours, the most unruly of them living in
the mountains of the frontier. And the Montenegrins have been showing
that when they are not compelled to live with weapons in their hand they
can be quite industrious. There has, till now, been more colonization of
Kossovo than of Macedonia; but there are wide tracts of country around
Skoplje which will be settled, once they have been freed from malaria.
The political consequences that this will have on Macedonia, by the
stabilization of econo