The Archive · 1938

Leaders Defeated

Belgrade, Dec. 12

The Yugoslav Radical Union, the the Premier Dr. Milan Stoyadinovich, gained a substantial victory over opposition parties in the general election polling in which took ce yesterday.

The majority of Opposition leader suffered defeat, notably General Pera Zkivkovitch, former War Minister and founder of the National Party, and Dr. Advidovitch, chief of the Serbian Demorats.

The election resolved i nto a juggle between two fundamentally opposed viewpoints, represented by the Premier's Radical-Socialists and a loose federation of parties headed by Dr. Vladimir Macek, the Croat leader.

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