fferent culture, the Serbs having enjoyed a Byzantine and
the Croats an Austrian education, it would be advisable for these two
branches of the South Slav nation to come gradually and not violently
together,--last year when Radi['c] was lying in prison on account of his
subversive ideas Pribi[vc]evi['c] sent a message to say that he was
prepared to adopt half his programme. And Radi['c] sent back word
regretting that the Minister could not adopt the whole of it and thus
obtain for himself the Peasants' party. It is wrong to assert that this
party is unpatriotic; the enemies of Yugoslavia, who welcome in Radi['c]
a disruptive element, are totally in error. Years ago he was working for
the eventual union of Serbs and Croats--the Austrians imprisoned him
because in 1903 he went to Belgrade at the accession of King Peter and
made an admirable speech to this effect--and his present attitude is due
to the impatient manner in which Mr. Pribi[vc]evi['c] and his friends
are endeavouring to bring the union about. His peasants are a
conservative people; they cannot instantly dispel the anti-Serb ideas
which the Austrians for ever inculcated, nor the negative anti-Serb
frame of mind which they learned from their own _intelligentsia_. It
will take a little time before the Catholic peasant realizes that the
Orthodox Serb is his brother and that now his military service will not
be in an alien army, but in his own. "Let us go slowly," says Radi['c],
"with our peasants"; and he knows them very well.... One is told that he
changes his opinions from hour to hour; he is certainly very impetuous,
very much under the influence of his emotions; but in one thing he has
never varied--he has always struggled for the Croat peasant, and he has
been rewarded by the unbounded devotion of that faithful, rather
incoherent, creature.

Now the Serbs are a democratic people; they are by their nature in
opposition to any force, civil or military, which might attempt to make
the monarchy more absolute. The wisest Serbs do not forget that in the
peasant lies their principal wealth, and although as yet the Serbian
Peasants' party does not hold many constituencies in the old kingdom,
nevertheless it appears to have a brighter prospect than any other
Serbian party, for in that country the revolt against the
lawyer-politician is likely to be more efficacious than in France or
England. One may look forward to an understanding between Radi['c] and
this Serbian p