NOTE TO LEAGUE

Southland Times, Issue 22487, 24 November 1934, Page 5

NOTE TO LEAGUE

YUGOSLAV GRIEVANCE

SEQUEL TO MARSEILLES CRIME

“HUNGARIAN COMPLICITY”

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Geneva, November 22. The Yugoslavian Note handed to the League in connection with the assassination of King Alexander and M. Barthou says that an inquiry demonstrates it was organized and executed with the participation of terrorist elements who had taken refuge in Hungary and continue to enjoy the complicity with which the crime was finally perpetrated. The Hungarian authorities’ responsibility in aiding and supporting the terrorism of Yugoslav emigres is absolutely clear. Yugoslavia expresses faith in the efficaciousness of the League as a guardian of peace, and asks that the responsible persons involved be denounced before the highest organ of the international community. The Czechoslovakian and Rumanian Ministers are submitting Notes supporting Yugoslavia. Many ask, in view of the toning down of the Yugoslavian Note, what the original draft was like. One deleted passage said that Yugoslavia had to choose between war and an appeal to the League and decided on the latter.

Herr Exchardt, ■, Hungary’s representative on the League, expressed satisfaction that the matter had been brought to the notice of the League, and emphasized the urgency of having it cleared up. He expressed surprise and indignation in view of the campaign of vilification against Hungary and at the Yugoslav attempt to impugn Hungary’s fair name. He formally protested against these calumnies as international terrorism, against a country which was being disarmed and was an easy prey. “From a mountain has emerged a mouse,” declares the Italian paper Tribune in commenting on Yugoslavia’s decision merely to send a letter to the League regarding the assassinations. Giomale d’ltalia regrets that the whole matter is not being discussed openly at Geneva inasmuch as European governments have overlong turned a blind eye to European dangers. HUNGARIAN PROTEST COMPLICITY CHARGE DENIED. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 11.25 p.m.) Budapest, Nov. 23. A Government statement emphatically protests against the Yugoslav Note and repudiates the charge of complicity in King Alexander’s murder. It points out that the Yugoslav Government had not communicated with Hungary regarding alleged proofs of complicity; otherwise they would have been readily refuted. Yugoslav’s action therefore characterized as illegitimate and endangering the peace of Europe, for which the Hungarian Government demands an immediate impartial League investigation. SERAJEVO MURDERER MEMORIAL SHOULD BE ABOLISHED. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, November 22. Mr H. L. Henderson, of Oxford, in a letter to The Times suggested that Yugoslavia would strengthen her case against the encouragement of political assassination before the League if she demolished the Serajevo memorial to the murderer whose action started the World War.