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Technically all political parties have now been suppressed, by royal decree, but in fact the authorities have concentrated on dispersing the Croat Peasant party, which has demanded for Croatia-Dalmatia local autonomy and the status of a dominion (similar to Canada) under the Crown at Belgrade. It was the leader of this party, Stefan Raditch, who was assassinated in the parliamentary chamber last summer. The assassin, Deputy Punica Ratchitch, an ardent supporter of General Zivkovitch, has not yet been brought to trial...
Delegates representing His Majesty's least devoted and most unsympathetic subjects, in Dalmatia and Croatia, met at Zagreb, last week, declared themselves to be an independent Parliament, and announced that Croatia-Dalmatia will hereafter conduct its internal affairs without regard to the Royal Government at Belgrade, while allowing the Crown to represent Croatia-Dalmatia in foreign affairs...
Briefly, the Delegates postulated for Croatia-Dalmatia what amounts to "dominion status...
...course the Royal Government will continue to deny Croatia-Dalmatia any such status de jure, but every year these two irrepressibly self-reliant provinces approach nearer to a de facto "dominion status." At present Croats and Dalmatians haughtily refuse to elect representatives of themselves in the Royal Parliament at Belgrade...
...Parliament of Jugoslavia at Belgrade last week the leader of the Opposition, famed Stefan Raditch, was directing a furious filibuster against the Government's proposal to sign with Italy the Treaty of Nettuno (TIME, June u). That document would facilitate the "peaceful penetration" by Italian colonists of Dalmatia, which is adjacent to Croatia, the part of Jugoslavia from which Stefan Raditch hails. For three years Croat Raditch has blocked the treaty, driving the Jugoslav government to their wit's ends, since they are under heaviest pressure from Signor Mussolini to sign...