in the
parliamentary labor after having made this reserve...."

[FN: Referring to the Declaration of the Jugo-Slav Club, May
30, 1917, in the Vienna Parliament J. J. Grgurevich,
Secretary of the South Slavic National Council, Washington,
D. C., writes:

"In order to understand correctly this Declaration, it is
necessary to state that the same was presented in the Vienna
Parliament during war time, when each, even the most
innocent, word in regard to rights, principles of
nationality, and liberty of peoples, was considered and
punished as a crime and treason, by imprisonment, even
death.

"Were it not for these facts, this Declaration would never
contain the words: 'and placed under the sceptre of the
dynasty Habsburg-Lorraine.' It was, therefore, necessary to
insert these words in order to make possible the public
announcement of this Declaration; it was necessary to make a
moral sacrifice for the sake of a great moral and material
gain, which was secured through this Declaration among the
people to which it was addressed and which understood it in
the sense and in the spirit of the Declaration of Corfu."]

APPENDIX II

THE PACT OF CORFU

At the conference of the members of the late (Serbian) Coalition Cabinet
and those of the present Cabinet, and also the representatives of the
Jugo-Slav Committee in London, all of whom have hitherto been working
on parallel lines, views have been exchanged in collaboration with the
president of the Skupstina, on all questions concerning the life of the
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in their joint future State.

We are happy in being able once more on this occasion to point to the
complete unanimity of all parties concerned.

In the first place, the representatives of the Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes declare anew and most categorically that our people constitutes
but one nation, and that it is one in blood, one by the spoken and
written language, by the continuity and unity of the territory in which
it lives, and finally in virtue of the common and vital interests of its
national existence and the general development of its moral and material
life.

The idea of its national unity has never suffered extinction, although
all the intellectual forces of its enemy were directed against its
unification, its liberty and its national existence. Divided between
several States, our