you preached the Bible also, you must know the
Biblical complaints of the Israel of old: "By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hung our
harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried
us away captive required of us a song, saying, Sing us one of the songs
of Zion? How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?" You are
now playing a real Babylonian role towards us Serbs, i.e. towards a
people who fought for the Cross, who sang freedom and who were crucified
for justice. You are not a better man than any peasant from the Serbian
villages. Do you want a proof? The Serbian peasant can sing, and you
cannot. You cannot sing, not because of your diseased throat, but
because of your evil conscience. You stopped the singing in a country
of songs, oh ill majesty! How could we now sing our songs while our
homes are transformed into empty caves? How could we sing, seeing our
bread in strangers' hands and cold stones in ours? How could we sing
now, when all our past protests against you and all our dead are
disturbed in their graves? You covered our country with sins and crimes,
and it is not our custom to sing of sins and crimes, but of virtues.
When will you show us your virtues? You have shown us until now only
your iron and fire, your brutality and brutality, and again brutality
and brutality,--and, did I say?--iron and fire. That is the essence of
your religion and science, of your soul and glory. We will despise all
that you brought into our country. Let us be silent, Sire, and you may
continue to show your Mephistophelean civilisation, and after you have
crushed all those who are weaker and smaller than you, Sire, open your
lips and preach upon their ruin to your admirers: _cantate Domino!_ But
we will not sing after our custom of old in your presence. We prefer to
be silent and to wait for God's judgment.

The Hidden Moral Treasures of the Serbian people are now shining, as
always, throughout all the times of darkness and suffering.

You will remember from the beginning of the war all the declarations of
the Serbian government about the Serbian loyalty to the end. Some among
you might have thought: such declarations are dictated by political
reasons. No, such declarations have been only a poor expression of what
we all in Serbia thought and felt. Loyalty to friends, devotion to our
pledged word, fidelity to the signed and unsigned treaties wer