DREAM OF PATRIOTS
SLOVENE-SLAV REUNION TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION IN AUCKLAND Yugo-SlaT* in Auckland will observe a national holiday on Saturday in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the liberation and union of the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. triune kingdom, which was creA ated after the war. comprises the former Kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro, with large accessions from Austria and Hungary and smaller acquisitions from Bulgaria. It includes Bosnia and Herzegovina, parts of Carniola and Styria, mainly inhabited by Slovenes, and the whole of Croatia-Slavonia and Dalmatia. The common frontier with Italy was determined after long negotiations by the Treaty of Rapallo. and that with Austria involved a plebiscite in the Klageufurt district. The new kingdom unites under one rule the majority of the Slovene-Slavs, who in the early part of the 20th century were living under six different governments, and were represented by deputies in 14 different national and provincial parliaments. The dream of union, now realised, was in the minds of many patriots who struggled ceaselessly for its realisation many years, but it was only through the Pact of Corfu that the final realisation came.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 524, 29 November 1928, Page 13
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190DREAM OF PATRIOTS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 524, 29 November 1928, Page 13
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