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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1934.

SERB RULE

RULE AMONG YUGO-SLAVIA MINORITIES

REVOLT ALWAYS

SEETHING

"With threat of fresh trouble overhanging Europe;as result of the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugo-Siquia, this article by Milton- Bronner, is of especial timeliness. It analyses the present situation in the land of the South Slavs and describes Bronner's observations while on a recent tour of Yugo-Slavia,

"Born out of the world's greatest conflict and hailed as a nation that at last gave freedom to the millions of South Slavs who had struggled in vain through centuries-for liberty, Yugo-Slavia yet is a seething mass of clashing populations, as diverse in culture, religion, and aspira- tions as the heterogeneous groups that made up the shat- tered Austro-Hungarian empire.

Revolt has brewed among the minorities almost since the day that the former Austrian provinces united, with Serbia in 1918 to form the new monarchy.

And this spirit of revelt may burst into a flame that will sweep the country, kindled by the pistol shots that ended the life of King Alexander I in Marseilles, France.

With less vigor, other nationali-

Seven areas fused to form, elamour for autonomy. But always Yugo-Slavin, with a territory of Alexander had refused. 96,000 square miles and a popula tion of 14,000,000. Into this union came Serbia, Montenegro, the for-ties within Yugo-Slavina borders mer Austrian provinces of Bosnia, have demanded lightening of the Herzegovina, and Dalmatia; the Serbian yoke, but futilely." But al- former Hungarian province of ways this diversity of races and Croatia-Slavonia; Slovenia, and the their arms hangs as a threat over the royal palace at Belgrade, as the Voydovina,

Serim rule over Croatians, Dalma- Albaniana, tans, Montenegrins, Bulgarians, Macedonians, and venes with their borders.

The dominant partner was Ser- bia and from the outset the Serbs have tended to regard the other Aress as aubordinate provinces, heedless of the lesson taught by the fall of the Austro-Hungarian em- pire.

PICTURESQUE COUNTRY

ENGLAND

DENMARK

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FRANCE

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APAIN

MEDITERRANERN

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This map shows the great diversity of peoples inhabiting the European melting pot that is Yugo-Slavik. Of many types and of widely varying aspirations, the minorities bitterly resent the over. lordship of Serbia, which looks upon them virtually as her vassals. Indicated on the map also le the home city of Petrus Kelemen, who shot down King Alexander 1, precipitating a grave European

eriata.

As it is a resort, it is not demanded that you "dress" for meals,

COLOURFUL COSTUMES

The men

wear white flannel trousers and porous silk shirts, with half sleeves and no ties. The women wear pajama suits. They Slo-ive in them and save laundry and dress billa. The music one hears is not the entrancing melancholy na tive music, but jazz. na up to date as the Lido or Le Touquet.

A beautiful land, primitive and pleturesque, is Yuge-Slavia. This very primitiveness is its great nt- traction for the traveller who seeks his recreation where few over-tip ping tourists pass and where a dol-

sonable amount of the native

katacher thought his fare was an was pretty good and, perhaps, the Austrian. At any rate he proceed. ed to air his grouse:

magnificent, vast school buildings In all the world,

But Zagreb's chief charm. is its market. In some places, like the far-famed Volendam in Holland, when the tourist steamer hoots its horn, all the natives dive into their housea, put on picturesque peasant costumes and peddle postcards, trinketa_or_pose for the kodak fende at so much per poše.” No- thing for nothing!

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But In Zagreb every market day Is made interesting, because the big town is literally invaded by the Croatian peasant women from the hinterland. They don their lovely 'em- old costumes little vests broidered In-glowing colours; quaint headdresses, wide, pleated, embroidered skirts, as if they, are going to a church feast,

Each has a small stand in the market where she sells her eggs, butter, cheese, fruit, or whatnot. She is not interested in tourista. Pays no attention to them.

She is a merchant to sell the pro- duce of her little farm. And when the market closes, the streets of Zagreb are crowded with peasant women doing some shopping of their own, or trudging homeward, with big-baskets-polsed on their heads.

COASTLINE FEAST FOR EYES

The steamship sali from Spalato to Ragusa must be one of the finest In the world. Only the towns are no longer called eo. Spalato is now Splaet. Ka- usa is Dubrovnik.

The trip takes nine hours in one of the

fant, white Yugo Slav steamships. They are specklessly Oddly enough, he proceeded to clean. Their officers are cordial show his passengers things which humans, interested in the well- proved that, for all the world de-being of their guests. The meals pression, Ljubljana was not suffer are superb. ing too much.

"Times aren't like they used to be in the old Austrian days. Then | Split-pronounced a gulden was a gulden and you Now when knew where you were. you have a hundred dinars, where are you?"

Then one may find a rare treat Invisit to the capital of the

There were whole quarters of ancient Austrian province of Slo-

pretty new villas, built since the venin, which used to be called Lal-

In the business section was ono vast block of shops, terminat- country town which has doubled in population since becoming Yuko-

the offices of which seemed to be Slay. You hire a kutscher withing in a 12-storey skyscraper, ulling in size from a tenth of an acre

Tented. his droschky to take you around to see the sights.

SERBIAN YOKE REMAINS Resentment has grown to revolt, speedily crushed, time after time. But in 1929 King Alexander Ilar or a pound still will buy a rea-bach. Now it is Ljubljana, a struck ruthlessly, A coup d'etat culminated in establishment of a money. new constitution in which there was only one National party, with Alexander as dictator. And into prison went rebel lenders, and many of them remain there.

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The fire of rebellion burns most fiercely in Croatia, whence came the assassin, Petrus Kelemen. Sur- passing the Serbs in culture and economie development, the Catholle Croata of Croatia-Slavonia and But matia, numbering three millions,

But blended with the primitive there is a startling air of modern ity at its best in many parts of the South Slav country.

For example, there is Bled, n part of a mountain lake, 1,500 feet above sau level, surrounded by the Slovenian Alps, same of which tower to 9,000, feet,

Here was the summer kome of King Alexander. Your hotel is great, white, shining palace of a place, everything spotlessly clean.

You naturally speak German. Unlike some of the Czechs, the Yuga-Slavs make no war upon a language. They hate the Germans and Austrians as much as do the Czechs, but they realize they can't expect tourists to learn a dificult Slav language.

war.

RESENTMENT IN ZAGREB

In Zagreb the same story, Croa- tians growl that the Yugo-Slay overnment, being predominantly Serb, has centred all its efforts in making Belgrade a great elty.

Yet Zagreb has doubled in pop-* ulation since the war and only Perhaps, the writer's German recently completed one of the most

But the ride! On the Dalmation const, the mountains-nome very high and bare-run sheer down to the, Adriatic. On the other side is a constant stream of islands vary-

to big ones 40 miles long,

Some of these are heavily wood. ed. Some are bare and mountain- QUA,

Riding between the mainland and the islands, the aca in as smooth as if one were in a steamboat on the Ohio or the Mississippi.

A land of rare beauty, this home of the Yugo-Slavs. And one who visits it hopes prayerfully that war will not como again with its horrors to despol it.

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life itself than Into the pages on which the author of a story has inscribed his stage directions. Authors can be very treacherous Kuides for an actor in fashioning his charactora, because the drama- the tint invariably puts into To George Arliss, life itself is mouths of his characters the things a stage, from the endlessly chang- he wants them to say. From the ing scenes of which he draws the viewpoint of consistency they aro characters he in turn portrays. not the things he could say. From "Diaraoll down through in drawing a character, there- "The House of Rothschild" to the fore, I first decide on the man him- ron Duke," the portraits he puts self. When I begin to study him on film are a composite of the there comes out of the fog plctures. characters as they are known of the various men' I have known through historical rècord, plus the and observed who remind me of characteristics of those he has that character. Then I say what known in the course of an absorb those men would say from

ng life. Even his fictional charac-| knowledge In a given situation, ters, he admits, are taken from and if the author's lines do not fit life. An example of this will be insist that they should be found in "The Last Gentleman," changed. which he completed before leaving Hollywood for England.

"The character of Cabot Barr is i composite of three men," he says, "One was my own father, another a man I once know in London, and the third wna, one I never saw.

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