:The ,General Election in 'Jugoslavia will take' place on Sunday.
The result is ettraordinarily difficult to predict, but- it will be, interesting to see how Proportional Repre- sentation- works in this ease. Parties are innumerable and none can: hope for a .clear-majority. But the. really _important issue, of :course, which cuts across the party formation is the question of centralization—the ideal of a Serbian Empire AS opposed to a. federation of free States ; and it is probably on these lines that the.inevit- able coalition will be formed. The position turns on -the attitude of the Croatian _leader, M. Badic, . who smay join .an anti-Centralist Coalition, or may maintain his former, policy of.abstention, -and remain in the powerful -position of the cat on the wall. There -,is .even . a rumour that ,he -will proclaim a republic at .Zagreb (,gram) on March 19th. Of the -importance of the bearing-of these affairs on the general situation in Europe, we hope to treat- in, an article as soon as the .resuLtsof the _election. are published.
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