tive for all the Slavs who are under the Austro-Hungarian rule.
Many of them are looking towards powerful Russia to liberate them
(Poles, Bohemians, Ruthenes, Slovaks). Yet they do not wish only
Freedom, but _Freedom_ and _Democracy_ together. Therefore they are
looking with one eye towards Russian power and with another towards
Serbian democracy. It is clear that the English victory over the Germans
must have as the first consequence the liberation of all the slaves in
Europe. In this case all the Southern Slav people in
Austro-Hungary--Serbs, Croats and Slovenes--wish to be one unit with
democratic Serbia, as it was formulated lately by the Southern-Slav
Committee in London, and all the others--Poles, Bohemians, Ruthenes and
Slovaks--wish to be _like_ democratic Serbia. Consequently Serbia is a
kernel, a nucleus of a greater Southern-Slav state, and at the same time
the inspiring and revolutionising power for all the down-trodden Slavs.
This kernel for five hundred years was the little, but never
subjugated, Montenegro, but lately the Piedmontal role has been
transferred to Serbia.

The English political interest in the future Greater Serbia, or
Yougoslavija, is of the first importance. The Southern-Slav state will
number about fourteen millions of inhabitants. This state will be the
very gate of the East. Yet Serbia is not only the nucleus of the united
Southern Slavdom, but the very nucleus of a Balkan Federation also, in
which the Greco-Roumanian element should be a good balance to the Slav
element in it. I repeat I like my little country just because it is so
comparatively little. But by necessity it is to become much larger. By
necessity the whole of the Serbian race is to be freed and united. By
necessity the Southern-Slav state and the Balkan Federation are to be
realised. Some of our neighbours may be against that, but all their
opposing effort will be in vain. Every intrigue against the Serbian
ideals of freedom and unity cannot effect a suppression, but only a
short prolongation of the period of its realisation. Behold, the time
has come, the fruit has grown ripe. All the Serbian race has now been
plunged into slavery. United to-day in slavery, they have now only one
wish--to be united to-morrow in Freedom.

England is bound to Russia more by a political or military treaty, but
she is bound to Serbia, and through Serbia with all other democratic
Slav worlds more by spirit--just by this democratic spirit. Th