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there were those who told us that the Southern Slavs, having come
together after all these hundreds of years, were tightly clasped in each
others' arms and that all reports to the contrary came from very
interested parties.

Little was said of the Slovenes; their language, as we have mentioned,
is not the same as that spoken by Serbs and Croats, and--what is of
still greater importance--they have Slovenia to themselves. If Croatia
were equally immune from Serbs, then by this time the Southern Slavs
would be a more united nation. Those people were wrong who fancied that
the presence of the Serbs in Croatia--they form between one-fourth and
one-third of the population--would be of service in welding together the
new State. They forgot that for many years the Austro-Hungarian
Government had in Croatia played off the Roman Catholic Croats against
the Orthodox Serbs. The two Slav brothers were incited to mutual hatred,
and though such a propaganda would naturally have more effect among the
uneducated classes, yet all too often the _intelligentsia_ responded to
these machinations. More favour, of course, was shown to the Croats,
whose obedience could largely be secured by means of the Church, whereas
no similar pressure could be brought to bear upon the Orthodox Serbs.
Even if the Government approached the Orthodox clergy, these latter had
only a very moderate control over their flock. A Serb is always ready to
subscribe towards the erection of a new church, which he regards as most
other nations regard their flag; but when it is built he rarely enters
it. This being so, the Austro-Hungarian Government tyrannized over the
Serbs in Croatia by measures taken against their schools, the Cyrillic
alphabet and so forth. It was natural that the suffering Serbs were apt
to compare these restrictions with those that were imposed upon the
Croats. However, among the _intelligentsia_ an effort--a fairly
successful effort--was made to nullify this dividing policy; the
Serbo-Croat Coalition was formed, one of the protagonists being Svetozar
Pribi[vc]evi['c], that very energetic Serb of Croatia, and in 1906 this
party obtained no less than sixty-eight seats, while the power of the
older Croat parties was correspondingly diminished and Radi['c] had his
very small following in the Zagreb Lantag. [Those who represented
Croatia in the central Parliament at Buda-Pest were chosen by the Ban,
Khuen-Hedervary. Those forty members had practically