The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-27
June. 1914. and June. 1871

June % is the seventeenth anniversary of the
murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand by>Bosni-
who had been instigated and trained by Serbian
military authorities and were unrestrained by the
Serbian civil government The latter aware of
the assassination plot for at least month before the
fatal day. This murder Of the Austrian heir-appar-
ent touched off the European powder-house.
In 1914 we sorry for poor little Serbia" She
had been bulied albeit not without some justihca-
ton, by Austria Hungary Moreover, many Serbs
lived under Austrian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbia wished to free her fellow nationals from the
Hspsburg and to bring them all together in Great
Serbia
The rights Of small nationalities" was one Of the
main slogans of the World war. President Wilson
spoke for these repressed peoples with fervor and
eloquence which rocked the world For the liberia
ton of no people was there more enthusiasm than
for the freedom Of Serbia.
After the war, Serbia was permitted to build the
Great Serbia which emerged on the map Of Of post
Europe as the Kingdom Of Yugo-Slava. But in
creating this kingdom the Serbs took in many Croats
and Macedonians.
Did the Serbs remember the manner in which
they had suffered at the hands of Austria and respect
the rights of the Croats and Macedonians? Hardly.
They have ground their subject nationaites be-
treated Serbs.
The international Committee for Political Prison.
ers, headed by men like Clarence Darrow Judge
Julian Mack, Sinclair Lewis, Arthur Garfield Hays,
z. c. Lindemann, Jerome Davis, Sherwood Eddy and
others has issued letter. based on careful frst-hand
information which reveals the state Of small nation
ates" in the Yugo-Slav kingdom on the seventeenth
anniversary of the first stroke in the for human
liberties:
cit is notorious that thousands Of Croats and
Macedonians are held in Yugo-Slav prisons under
incredible conditions solely for their efforts TO
obtain national independence. HUNDREDS, II not
thousands have been killed. All efforts Dy
ninorities in Yugo-Slavia to agitate the cultural
or political autonomy are treated as illegal
Complete suppression of all rights OF agitation
has forced these movements underground and
has led to terrorism by the oppressed as we'll as
by the Aolice
professor Enstein and the French League for
the Rights Of Man have protested to the Yugo-
Sav government relative to the murder OF Cle
brilliant Croat scientist, Professor Milan Sut11ay,
and the failure to arrest his murderer.
Trustworthy information coming to us from
those who are the victims Of persecution in Mace
donia "a land divided among Greece, Bulgaria
and -Savia) states that only in Bulgaria
are the political rights of these people respected
E Although they have highly developed spirit OF
3 natonaisn and demand autonomy or ndepend-
ence both the Greek and Yugo-Slav authorities
have met their demands by trying to impose on
them their own national cultures.
\ Since 1918 all Macedonian schools and
B churches have been closed by the Yugo-Slav
authorities. The use of the Bulgarian language
(Which is the Macedonian tongue) is forbidden,
u and even possession of Bible printed in Bulgar-
e ian is crime.
1.-THE inhabitants of this part of Yugo-Slavla
are subjected to a constant reign of terror, be-
Z cause they must support armed force OF
Yugo-Sav soldiers. Macedonia, with a popula-
= ton of 100000 inhabitants must support a
3 police force of II 900, whereas the rest of Yugo-
y Slavia with 100000 inhabitants has only 1900
+ policemen. There also is a standing army OF
1. 10000 men in Macedonia. All civil and military
2 Offices are filled by Yugo-Slavs The Macedonians
+ are dominated by alien and tyrannical govern
- ment.
we desire to join our protest to that Of Pro-
M lessor Albert Einsten, Heinrich Mann, and the
i French League for the Rights OF Man against the
unpublished murders said to have been committed
by an organization known as Young Yugo-Slavia.
~ "On behalf of interested American citizens as
~ we'll as behalf of the thousands of Croats and
A Macedonians in the United States, we desire to
enter our solemn protest against the violent re-
preston of their netionlist movements"
i Was it for such this that millions died, tens
.-sof millions MANNED and starved and billions
; .of dollars shoveled into the hoppersP
y.