Every twenty years or so in his interminable career M.
Pashitch " falls," but he always returns to power within the month, quite irrespective of whether his party has a majority in Parliament or not. It is to be feared that little good will come of his new reign. It looks as if some sort of an arrangement might be come to between him and the reactionary Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Professor Tsankoff, on the basis of " withstand- ing the Bolshevist menace." In the case of Jugo-Slavia this really means preventing the Opposition parties (par- ticularly the Croatian Peasants' Party), who have a majority in Parliament, from asserting their predomin- ance. The Croats, who desire a measure of Home Rule. are apparently to be identified with Bolshevism because . their leader, Raditch, has been to Moscow. They are in truth an agrarian peasant party who desire an extended small ownership, which is the antithesis of Communism. Altogether, the Balkan situation is not very satisfactory, and we fear that before long trouble may arise in this quarter.
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