M. Pashitch, whom we saw somewhere described as the "
inveterate " Prime Minister, of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes while other European Governments rose and fell, has resigned. Oppositions have found him invincible : defeat has come from within his Cabinet. To secure the support of the Croats party he took into his Cabinet M. Raditch, their agrarian leader, and made him Minister of Education. The result has been fatal even to M. Pashitch. M. Raditch's wildly irresponsible actions and speeches in different parts of the country and the wholly unbalanced incon- sistencies of his views created insuperable difficulties for the Prime Minister. After voting for the prorogation of the Yugo-Slav Parliament, which might have given a welcome breathing space in tlitliectic life that he led his colleagues, M. Raditch demanded its reopening, to which no one else would agree. He threatened resig- nation with his followers, and his leader resigned instead. The Government has been a -coalition and we will not prophesy the next phase of any Balkan politics.
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