NOT REPRESENTATIVE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 151, 28 June 1943, Page 5

NOT REPRESENTATIVE

Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, June 27. The gap between .the emigre Government and the struggling population was very wide, said the "New Statesman and Nation," commenting on the Yugoslav political position before the" new Cabinet was formed. The Government mainly represented a regime of a few hundred men who were greatly compromised by their past. It iwas headed by politicians of advanced years, and reactionary in outlook. | That was the real cause of the political instability which reached its climax in the downfall of Professor Jovanovic. Indirectly, he was deposed by the Allied victory in North Africa and the prospect of an Allied invasion. Once national liberation begins to look like a practical possibility each exiled Government will be compelled - to decide on the programme which would be acceptable to its people. Some Ministers in the Jovanovic Cabinet looked forward to a strong Yugoslavia ruled by a strong Serbia This would have meant the continuation of the hegemony of the ruling Serbian clique which ruined Yugoslavia. Another group wished to create a democratic and federal Yugoslavia with equal rights to all her nationalities. This is the sortNaf regime for which the people of Yugoslavia have declared themselves whenever they were able to express their opinions. Knezevic, the Yugoslav Court Minister and Counsellor to King Peter, has resigned.