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PYXIS, WEDNESDAY, MAME 1, 1944.
SZIFINTY-TIRE? YEAR.
Patriotic Anger and Enthusiasm of Yugoslays is Being Exploited "People's Liberation Army" not under exclusive patronage of Soviet . . . Men About Tito Are Handful of Unrepresentative Ideologists * Communists Aspire to Lead in Districts Deeply Catholic
Later Dr. Ribar bePrince Regent. came first speaker of the Yugoslav Parliament. His position prior to this now appointment was vice-president of the Democratic Party; but he has a son who is well-known as a Communist, and is one of the leaders of the partisans. Dr. Ribar is supported by three vicepresidents: these are Mosa Pijade, a confirmed Communist and formerly fart; Secretary in Yugoslavia, who is neither Croat nor Serb, but a Jew; Ivan Augustinovitch, a Croat sculptor, not known as a Communist-on the contrary, he recently made busts of Hitler and Mussolini to the order of the Pavelitch Government; and Josip Rus, a Slovene, known not as formally a Communist, but as an enemy of organised religion. Four further members of a provisional "Government" have also been None of these is explicitappointed.
among Yugoslays.
The others, all ar-
bitrarily nominated ,prestimably by the same authority that made Tito a Marshal, are men of whom not one Yugoslav in a hundred had previously heard. It is apparent that Communist influence in the movement is considerable, and it is doubtless the Communist deBut the sire to capture it entirely. movement controls or aspires to control forces claimed to include nearly a quarter of a million men in districts which are very deeply Catholic-mainly Croatia and Slovenia-and, what-
ever the associations of its leaders, support would stitii broadly-based hardly be forthcoming for a regime committed to Communism and exclusively conducted by men associated with the Third International. A number of priests, both Catholic and Orthodox, have identified themselves with it, and its published programme is, a is Zecevitch Vlado a Communist. ly doubtless for their benefit.' in broad Serbian Orthodox priest; Colonel Sulei- and moderate terms, disavowing "every man Filipovitch is a Moslem, and Mos- form of violence and lawlessness" as lems do not often become Commun- well as the desire for "radical change" ists; Dr. Josip Smodlaka is a lawyer before the end of the war makes free of moderate standing, although he was debate possible. It stresses the imat one time the Yugoslav Minister to portance of private property and "inthe Holy See; Rado Pribivetich, an- itiative in industry and the econoarkic other Serb, was ,expelled from the De. field." naocratic Party on suspicion of being The Free Yugoslav radio station, an undeclared Communist. Other men from which so much of the news pubwho have been nominated for office are Yugoslav resistance Vlado Ribnikar, a very rich Serb, and lished here about ,is outside Yugoslavia and Bozidar Macgovac, a former member originatesrelations with external Comclose of the Peasant Party, but expelled from in munist bodies. it for Left Wing extremism. -"The Tablet." Mainly Communists or Mainly
It may well be that there will be ail revolutionaries, nor are they great constitutional changes in Yugo- 1, any means exclusively Croats. slavia, as indeed in Czechoslovakia; for The "People's L-beration Army" uses both were synthetic creations of the the jargon o: the l eft, but there have and Amlast peace, mixed States twith one race for some time been British headquarplaced in a permanent majority over erican liaison officers at its the other peoples who remain strongly ters, and ;t is ce:tainly not under convinced both that they had a moral exclusive patronage of the Soviet claim to much more autonomy than Union The conversations in Cairo between they were allowed, and that they narrowly missed, through ill fortune or President Inonu of Turkey and the Althat malice, vastly more favourable treat- lied leaders suggest very strongly ment at Versailles. But a detailed a military campaign in thetheBalkans Turks study of the men now presenting them- is in prospect, perhaps withno Russian selves as an alternative Government as active participants; but Red the and to Cairo, went for Yugoslavia suggests very strongly principal that the patriotic anger and enthusi- Army is not likelythe tolocalparticipate. forces in asm of large numbers is being ex- When it begins, all ploited by a handful of wholly un- Greece and Yugoslavia will become plan; military the to very important representative ideologists. hut "Marshal" Tito's will be the most Prospects of a Balkan Campaign. the is it important, simply because "Tito," the Commander -in-Chief of most numerous. Its importance will is Patriots? Yugoslavia, in forces the partisan be entirely military; and the Allied Do you wish to help educate a priest Perhaps the most ominous fact is now revealed to be Josip Broz, a formboth that will insist High Command Ribar himself and Dr. Smod- for work in Western Australia? Make er member of the International Bri- he and General Mihailovich direct the that Dr. annual contribution to help gades in Spain. It is also announced energies of their followers exclusively laka are the only men associated with aanregular indigent student. Tito whose names are publicly known that the rank of Marshal has been con- against the Germans. ferred on him, but who conferred it is Tito's Colleagues. not stated and is not at all clear. The man who has been made PresiKing Peter, who alone had authority to of the new provisional assembly do so, has repudiated him altogether. dent liberated READY FOR THE OVEN, ALWAYS AVAILABLE ATBros is, we believe, the third to bear and "Chief of State in theDr. Ivan is the Croat, the title of "Tito," the successor to the territories" of President Russian Lebedev and the Hungarian Ribar, who was chosen Assembly which met Kosta Nagye. Attempts are being the Constitutional up the kingto set war last the the after in made to represent his activity 'PHONES: B3777; B1438. 48 MURRAY STREET. of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. International Brigades as the profes- dom lIe was President of it at the time sional activity of a soldier seeking TEAROOMS SUPPLIED BY it expelled its sixty democraticalCAFES HOTELS military experience: whereas it is the when -elected Communist members, after dearest sign of international Commun- ly SERVICE. SPECIAL the Communists had shown themselves ist ideology. in government by BACON BUTTER HONEY MILK But although the Croat Tito himself unfit to take part many outrages, including the murder is so elusive a figure, and not a soldier ALL DAIRY PRODUCE SUPPLIED. Drashkovitch, Minister, former of a the carriere," "de but a revolutionary of a bomb at the men about him are not by any means and the hurling
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