YUGOSLAV PROTEST
"ACTION UNJUSTIFIED"
RUGBY, May 17,
The Yugoslav' Minister called at the Foreign Office yesterday and handed the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs a strongly-worded condemnation by his Government of the action of the Axis Powers in attempting to cut off part of the Yugoslav territory and in purporting to set up a so-called Free Croatian State.
The Yugoslav Government, the only duly accredited representative of Croatia, as of other parts of the Yugoslav State, insists that this is a completely unjustified proceeding which grossly violates the true feelings of the Yugoslav people in general, and of the Croatian population in particular. Persons whom the Germans and Italians are using as instruments are described as terrorists acting under Axis orders.
According to a Rome message, it is officially stated that a Croat delegation will ask the King of Italy to designate a Prince of the House of Savoy to assume the Ci'oatian Crown. —8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1941, Page 7
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