PARTITION OF JUGO-SLAVIA
CHARGES AGAINST CROAT LEADER. PENALTY CAUSES CONSTERNATION. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Belgrade, April 30. There is consternation in Jugo-Slavia owing to the heavy sentence of three years imposed on Dr. Matebek, leader of 3,000,000 Croats, on a charge, of conspiring to partition Jugo-Slavia kingdom. Opposition circles are afraid that the Croats will now abandon peaceful efforts to improve their situation in favour of violence. Dr. Matebek was charged with signing a manifesto known as the “Zagreb resolutions,” advocating an independent Croatia outside Jugo-Slavia, and with giving interviews to British and other newspapers. expressing the same views. The accuracy of the charges are denied by Dr. Matebek. He also denies that he wants to leave Jugo-Slavia. He wants only liberty within its borders and a revision of the constitution.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1933, Page 7
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