The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-02
Jugoslavia Unites All
 Its Home Factions
tContInuea ftom Paee i.l

SIsd that Foreign Minister Mom- ''t Ninctch and second vice-PTem.
 t nlodoaan Javanavic % to Rome
 E negotiations.
 Despite denlals e Rome that Italy
 MN offered Co mediate, it was in.
 Nftd here that Italy had made |Ith an offer but for reasons of .It1tiee had sought to make 1t ape pear that Jugoslavia had taken the [4'lIative.
 me first Italian proposal, di- #Icmatic quarters said, was that Gen. Dusan T. elmovitch, the ! Nt1niier, and Foreign Minister M'ncitch 60 to Rome.
 Nhis, it was reported, the Jugo- ! NiAgB refused to even consider and N1Aly made the alternative proposal.
 Italy, it was reported, sought to Naye the government send Q letter fo Benito Mussolini asking him to mediate.
 ftaiy;s move was reported to have Seem timed to coincide with Croa- tin,s attempt to avoid war. ! Three Croat leaders, including l August Kosutic, came to Belgrade ! today after announcing, as the rec { sult of conferences, htat they had ]; reached Q decision on the stand { tne Croat political element would What Greats Asked Usuaily reliable informants said 1 Che Croats asked CD continuance !, of ie3s agreement which gave the 1 Greats autonomy; (2) A guarantee | that the government would pursue q peaceful foreign policy, that is, ! avoid war with Germany; and (O \ That c supreme council of three I men, . Serb, Croat and Slovere, { would be formed as sort of inner l cabinet to take decisions on big probiems. It was said that the | Gxoats were not insistent on the third point.
 Many runors continued to cir- \ bulate.
 One was that Baron Franz von Rapen, Germany's ace diplomat, might be transferred here as min- I1ster. He Is now ambassador to Turkey.
 Another was that sukru saraco- Glu, Turkish foreign minister, might visit Belgrade.
 Two Andric, Jugoslav minister to Germany, left Belgrade last night for Berlin after brief visit here.
 Partly due to rain, perhaps, an exodus of civilians from the capital almost stpoped. Also police per- lmitted travellers to take with them only small hand bags. All those who sought to leave the capital for the provinces with trunks, were halted.
 Crisis Near Day Nazis
 Berlin, April 2-(UP) = Author ased German quarters declared to- day that the crisis in German jugoslav relations had grown worse during the past 24 hours.
 "Constantly mounting anti-oer- man demonstrations are occurring in Jugoslavia," authorized quarters said.
 German newspapers continued to give prominent display to reports Of ,Algoslav atrocities" against the German minority in Jugoslavia.
 Newspapers said that except In Croatia, "the systematic pursuit of Germans was increasing.
 Despite Belgrade denials, Ger. man authorized quarters insisted that British Foreign Secretary An. thony Eden paid brief visit to the Jugoslav capital yesterday.
 "The Avala (Jugoslav News Agency) denial is no proof to the contrary" authorized quarters said. @It @ evident that he (Eden) sneaked in under cover of darkness and departed just as quickly to z enable the denial to be made"
 Eden returned to Athens from Belgrade, 1t was said.
 Authorized quarters said that viktor Won Heeren, German rlin- ister to Jugoslavia, now was in Berlin but 1t was not yet known < whether he had reported to Ger man Foreign Minister Joachim Won Ribbentrop. It also was not known how long Heeren would re- main.
 N Reports pouring into Berlin told '0f increasing a1ti-0 German demon- strntionS in Jugoslavia, including the beating of members of the