YUGOSLAV UNITY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23965, 15 May 1941, Page 12

YUGOSLAV UNITY

POSITION AFTER THE WAR j ! ADDRESS TO CREDITMEN ! j 1 I The development of Yugoslavia since j | the last war, with particular attention I Ito the many political aspects, was j j dealt with by Mr. H. R. Rod well in i an address delivered at a luncheon of! the Auckland Creditmen's Club yesterj day. Mr. Kodwell said that when the j war ended there would be a crop of I problems awaiting solution, one of j which would be the future of countries such as Yugoslavia. Mr. Kodwell said the problem of Yugoslavia was essentially a domestic one, and none of the parties desired a break-up oi the State. In spite of all its difficulties, Yugoslavia remained a State, and it was not a ramshackle one. Signs were growing of real Yugoslav feelings, particularly among the younger people. Nothing had drawn the Serbs and Croats together so powerfully as the threat of outside interference, the most recent example being the German invasion. "Yugoslavia seems likely to remain a State, and it is one of the countries which can emerge in the future as a real national State," concluded Mr. Kodwell. "There is a national Yugoslav feeling which must bo taken into | account when the war is over. We must start to plan now; it will be too late | when the war is over to make rational j judgments."