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relations with Serbia,
being unwilling to have anything |
to do with government of cut
throats, an obscene saying went
the rounds in "Black Hand" circles
in Belgrade. It was intended to be
extremely uncomplimentary for King
Edward and for English public opin-
ion. The wording of the saying is un-
printable, but, transcribed, it said
that King Edward can do a thing or
two, and that the Serbians will do
whatever they damn please-public
opinion or no public opinion.
A similar performance of moral in
decency, oriental stubborness and dis
dain of public opinion has, ever since,
characterised the Belgrade oligarchy.
It made no difference which section
of this oligarchy pretended to be the
spokesman for Belgrade; the hall
mark had always the same quality.
The label on the bottle was different,
the wine was the same. BLACK
Hand" white Hand, "Paschitchs
Greater Serbia. "Davidovich's Be-
loved Croats", "Vukichevich's Con-
spiracy", "Punischa Rachich's Heroic
Slaughter" and "Zivkovich's Consoli-
dation" meant only so many slogans;
the aims and the ends were the same:
supremacy and rule of the Belgrade
gangland.
Public opinion be damned
Remember the Sarajevo tragedy.
Remember the Saloniki process and
it's CHASTITY conclusion.
Remember the blood-bath in the
Belgrade parliament.
Remember the ten years of unpre-
cedented strangling of q free nation
and a superiority civilized people. Not
a conquered people, but a people
whose freely extended brotherly hand
has been spat on, whose wholehearted-
ly preferred friendship has been
smeared with filth and drained in
blood.
And, remember, this same kind of
performance is at present being
staged in the Belgrade Court for the
Defense of the Realm, before which
Croatian patriots have been dragged
for their afore concluded doom. The
whole civilized world knows that the
bloody irony of this trial was insti-
tuted for the sole purpose of cowing
the Croatian people, of breaking
their backbone, of forcing them into
an unfelt loyalty and of depriving
them, on trumped up charges, Of their
leaders The whole world knows it,
but Belgrade will go forward, unper-
turbed by public opinion, disdainful
of the tenets of justice, derisive of
human decency and the rights of
man, processing with obscene hypo-
crisy the defense of a higher ideal,
the ideal of iron-shod autocracy YER
sus liberty and equality.
And it will brand the Serbian peo-
ple--to whom it belongs only by way
of usurpation-with the stigma of
CAIN.
And the Serbian people, God knows
doesn't want to be the people OF
Cain. Without Belgrade the Serbian
and the Croatian people would long
ago have found the solution Of their
union, the way of mutual love and
mutual respect. But Belgrade roared
with rage at the bare thought of a
solution based on love and respect
Belgrade, the most un-Serbian unit
in Serbia! For, it would be hilar.
iously grotesque to insist for even a
single moment that Belgrade is Ser.
bian. 1t is whatever you like: mon.
grel-Greek, mongrel-Gypsy, mongrel.
Turk, mongrel-Levantine but it is not
Serbian. Serbian were the boys who
fought on Kajmakchalan, who died
by the Morava and whose skeletons
were bleaching in the Albanian
mountains at time when Belgrade
was infesting the night-cafes and
brothels of Corfu, Geneva and the
French watering places. Belgrade
speaks the Serbian idiom, Belgrade
waves the Serbian flag, Belgrade
swears on everything Serbian, Bel
grade screams out the sacredness OF
the Serbian idea, but =. 0, God
what a colossal bluff! In it's soul
Belgrade knows only Belgrade, loves
only Belgrade, gratis for Belgrade
murders for Belgrade, and in the end
will ruin the state, the country and
the people for the sake of-Belgrade
| And it will say; am right!
! For, it's right is-might!
! But, mark you, might has never