BALKAN KINGDOM
OFFICIAL NAME ALTERED.
KING ALEXANDER’S IDEA.
(Rec. 8.30 p.m.) Belgrade, October .3 King Alexander presided at an important Cabinet meeting at which it was decided to alter the official name of the Kingdom to Yugoslavia instead of, as hitherto, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. King Alexander’s idea is to make his subjects feel themselves citizens of a unified State instead of members of semi-tribal groups. The administration will in future be centralized in nine large territorial divisions instead of the present 33 departments.—Australian Press Association.
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Southland Times, Issue 20897, 5 October 1929, Page 7
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