Evening star., 1923-07-08
Governments Hold Very Weak.


Governments Hold Very Weak.
The sole governmental party is the
radical party Of which Prime Minis
ter Mikola Pashitch has long been the
recognized leader. All the ministers
are members of this party. 1t is said
that the government can count at any
time on the support of the Macedonian
moslems, but even with the extra
fourteen votes the government is
still so far short Of a majority in the
skuptshina that 1t can continue in
power only through the tacit acqui-
escence, or total lack of unity, Of the
opposition.
In the previous skuptshina an al
lance of the democrats with the radi-
Gals gave the ministry majority, but
this alliance is now, at least tempo
rarily, dissolved The radicals are a
Serbian party. and the chief support
ers of strongly centralized govern
1i. me5t. The name amt. radiGaf is is mis- Ms
most conservative parties in the king
dom.
The chief opposition is the Raditch
Croatian-peasant party, which is fed
eralist and opposed to a strong GEN.
trail government. 1t also supports rad
ical economic principles. Its seventy
members in the skuptshina come
mostly from Croatia, but a few are
the last skuptshina the representa-
tves of this party refused to attend
the sessions in order to avoid the
necessity of swearing allegiance to
The twenty-one representatives of
the Christian socialist or popular
party are all Sloveness. This party
IL clerical and is controlled by the
list. but not so strongly SO as the Ra-
ditch Croatian-peasant party. Its
economic principles are conservative
or moderate. The recognized leader is
r. Koroshec.
Agrarians md Democrats.
The ten representatives Of the
agrarfans are from scattered dis
tricts, although most of them come
from Serbia. This party is closely
affiliated with the Raditch party, and
holds similar economic views.
The democratic party was founded
by persons who wished to create an
organization that would be national
In its character rather than provin-
cial or racial. Such party would be
a good thing for the kingdom If its
attitude were practicable. In reality.
what 1t does is to try to ignore the
greatest political issuein which every
one Is interested. The party Is
mainly Serbian, although its member
ship includes some Croats and a few
Slovenes. Its representatives come
from Serbia Croatia, Dalmatia- Sla-
vonia and Macedonia. This party was
formerly governmental party in
COALITION WITH Ine IL 10 HOW
I'm the opposition. but is much fur
ther away in it's principles from the
Raditch-p SAINT party than 1t is from
the radicals.
The impossibtlity of any party's
successfully evading the question be-
tween Capitalization and federation
is shown by the division of the dem
ocratfc party into two factions, led
by Davinovitch and by Pribichevitch
The former lean toward autonomy
for the different subdivisions of the
kingdom, while the latter support a
greater degree of Capitalization.
One MOntenegrin In Protest.
The hirty-two moslems are often
cassed together, but in reality they
The fourteen from Macedonia are
Turks, who nevertheless are inclined
TO support the government. The
eighteen from Bosnia are Serbian by
descent. but are federalists and def
nttely in the opposition. at least until
tion OF liberalization or centraliza-
tion. The leader OF the Bosnian
moslems is DR. Spaho.
The eight German members come
from territory which formed part of
Hungary before the war-SiayonIa.
and the Banat.
The one member of the skuptshina
who is classified as a "Montenegrin"
il ii representative of the minority in
that region, who are still opposed to
the Incorporation of the old kingdom
or Montenegro into the new kingdom
OF the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
The great majority of the Monte
negrtnS however. appear we'll satis-
fled with their union with the Serb
tans, with whom they are so closely
connected by the ties of a common
race language. religion and histor-