The results of the Jugo-Slav elections have been of much
more than local interest. Roughly what has happened is this. The so-called " Radicals " (really the party which has run the country as a Serbian Empire) have been so reduced that they have no clear majority. M. Radio, the Croatian leader, who favours, it is said, a loose federation of all the heterogeneous regions of the State, has greatly increased his following, so that if— though it is a very big " if "—he could form a coalition with the other Federalist parties he might obtain a majority. Then the whole character of the Jugo-Slav State would be changed from a centralized Empire to a loosely federated peasant State. But then there arises the question whether the Serbian Imperialists under M. Pashitch would yield to the Federalists; even if the latter had a majority.
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