NEWS OF THE WEEK T HE harvest of Tuesday's dastardly crime
at Marseilles has still to be reaped. What lay behind the activities of the dead assassin, whose identity is not yet filially established, is yet to be discovered. There will he grave repercussions in France and Jugoslavia, in France as result of the growing anger at the failure of the authorities to provide more adequate protection for France's royal guest and in Jugoslavia- for reasons all too obvious. The triune kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes has never cohered; and of late years a policy of ruthless centralization, which meant in effect pure Serb dominance; has been pursued. King Alexander's decree of October, 1929, abolishing the historic .ethnological divisions of the country, and substituting nine Banats and Belgrade, has always been thoroughly unpopular. The Croats have retained their national unity and are as determined as ever to assert it. If the new Regency Council has the Courage and Wisdom to concede a reason- able amount of freedom,: and relax restraints on writing aid speech; a rapprochement may be achieved under the shadow of tragedy. The wider bearings of the Marseilles outrage are discussed in a leading article on a later page.
