ences--the two deputies Dr. D[vz]amonia and
Professor Stanojevi['c] smilingly remembered the day when, as
schoolboys at Sarajevo, they had been persuaded by the Austrians to pull
out each other's hair for the reason that one was a Croat and one was a
Serb--and now it was the engrossing subject of Agrarian Reform which
claimed the attention of Catholic, Orthodox and Moslem. This is not a
religious question, for while the landlords are mostly Muhammedan begs
about half the peasants are of the same religion; and the negotiations
have been marked by a notable absence of passion. Most of the begs
acknowledge that the old regime was unprofitable, for with the peasant
paying one-third to one-fifth of his production to the landlord the land
only yielded, as compared with the sandy districts of East Prussia, in
the proportion of five to twenty-two. Under the new order of things,
with the State in support of the "usurping" peasant--so that there are
said to be in Bosnia about a thousand peasants who are millionaires (in
crowns)--there is no longer any dispute with regard to the "kmet" land,
where the peasants with hereditary rights have become the owners; and
with regard to the "begluk," which the beg used to let to anyone he
pleased, it is only a question as to the degree of compensation. Thus,
it is not among the landowners and the peasants that one must look in
searching for an anti-national party. Bosnia contains various iron works
and coal mines, where profession is made of Communism. But when the
Prince-Regent was about to come to pay his first official visit in 1920
to Sarajevo the Governor received a communication from the Communists of
Zenica, which is on the railway line. They asked for permission to
salute "our Prince" as he came past; and a deputation of these
Communists, who are very like their colleagues in other parts of
Yugoslavia, duly appeared and took part in a ceremony at the station.

DESPITE THE NEW PHENOMENON OF COMMUNISM

Just as innocuous--whatever the enemies of Yugoslavia may say--are the
Communists in the old kingdom of Serbia. Perhaps in the whole State of
Yugoslavia they number 50,000 in a population of about 12,500,000. But
they are so well organized that in the municipal elections of 1920 they
were victorious in most of the towns. In Belgrade they secured 3600
votes, as compared with 3200 for the Radicals, 2800 for the
Democrats--both of whom were not only badly organized but very
slack--and 605