YUGOSLAV POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1943, Page 4

YUGOSLAV POLICY

CHANGE MADE NECESSARY BY PROSPECT OF NATIONAL LIBERATION. MOVE TOWARDS FEDERALISM & FREEDOM. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON. June 27. “The gap between the emigre Government and the struggling population was very wide,” says the “New Statesman,” commenting on the Yugoslav political position before the new Cabinet was formed. The Government mainly represented a regime of a few hundred men who were greatly compromised by their past. It was headed by politicians of advanced years, reactionary in outlook. That was the real cause of the political instability which had its climax in the downfall of M. Javanovic. Indirectly he was deposed by the Allied victory in North Africa and the prospect of an Allied invasion. Once national liberation begins to look like a practical possibility, each exiled Government is compelled to decide on a programme which would be acceptable to its people. Some Ministers in the Javanovic Cabinet looked forward to a strong Yugoslavia ruled by the strong Serbian clique which ruined Yugoslavia. Another group wished to create a democratic Federal Yugoslavia, with equal rights to all her nationalities. This is the sort of regime for which the people of Yugoslavia have declared themselves whenever they were able to express their opinions.” M. Knezevic, Yugoslav Court Minister and Counsellor to King Peter, has resigned.