NEW REGIME.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 January 1929, Page 5

NEW REGIME.

NOT PERMANENT. PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL LATER ON. •TTn’fcftd Prase Association —By Electrio Tolegrapb Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) BELGRADE, Jan. 11. “The country will return to a parliamentary the moment our particular job is' finished,’ ’ declared General Zivkoviteh, the new Prime Minister of Jugo-Slavia, in an interview with a special correspondent of the “Daily Express,” who asked whether the present regime was permanent and absolutism, mi'litalry dictatorship, or Fascism.

General Zivkoviteh replied: “Neither. The King has l done only what Croats and Serbs have alike been demanding. All said, ‘Let the King act, for only ■the King can save the situation.' Well the King has l acted, and selected men devoted to the State, men with clean political records, to form a neutral reforming government.” NEW GOVERNMENT NOT WELCOMED IN CROATIA. LONDON, Jan. 11. With the exception of messages inspired or approved by the Government, there is no news either from Belgrade or Zagreb. The interview with Dr. Matchek, loader of the Croatian Peasant Party, which is published in Budapest, denounces os 1 sheer lies the statements that the new regime was welcomed in Croatia. “We know the dictatorship will not be short-lived,” says Dr. Matenck. “On the contrary it will last. Its purpose is to atitta.in the “Serbisation” of the Croats which other means have failed to attain. We demanded satisfaction for the murder af M. Raditeh; instead we obtained a dictatorship which will result in the annihilation of the Croat spirit. ’ ’ The Berlin Ta/geblatt’s Belgrade correspondent telegraphs that Ministers confirm the present situation will last several years. The Government is working, out a programme, he says. There is no question of the reorganisation of .Tuga-Slavia, on a federal basis and certainly not of the. restoration of the Croatian State 1 .