His fecture tour in the Scandinavian countries completed, Mr. Lockhart sels out for the Balkans, this time tas a free agent with no other motive than to see for himself how the ions of Central and South-Caste: Europe had fared since his last visi to. form his own opinions as to cir chances of weathering the pre" sent economic and political storms.
"rst the reader ecompanics Mr. Lockhart to Zagreb, Croat capital of, 'Yugoslavia, In-mis' city, where time moves on such a leisurely stage, polities have a heat and fervour that out of keeping with the Oriental Havour of the country—for, in Yugoslavia, the half-way house between East and West_may truly be found. Here the Serbo-Croatian dispute rayes fiercely and, in the past twenty years, is become'a legend, powerful, deep: rooted and dangerous. The Orthodox Serb aid the Catholic Slovene and Croat allow their religious differences to involve them in bister controversy, which, to the author's mind, is the greatest of all the many ressons for the lack of solidity in the front this country" presents to its neighbours. The Briton i blamed for taking sides in her domestic quarrels; for it is wreatly to England's benefit that Yugoslavia should be strong, and of paramount importance to the total tarian that she should be divided. Besides partiality, the anither blames The description of a delightful voyage down the Dalmatian coast to Dubrovnik, a commentary on the pre-stage of the British navy in those waters British Is, who. take and a trip to Belgrade, the Serb capital which, during the Great War, changed hands four times, completes Mr, Lockhart's sojourn in Yugoslavia, In this time, the Balkan need of 9 strong England was impressed on him by all, whether it) was Dr. Macek, M. Stoyadinovieh or Prince Paul himself.
The rail journey from Belgrade to Sofia is marked by the absence of barbed wire on the frontier and other manifestations of the bene-feet effect of the policy of goodneighbourliness. Bulgaria, Mr. Tock-hart says, he would like to see allied with Yugoslavia in a Serb-Croat-Slovene-Bulgar combination, forming 8 South-Slav federation, the possibi Tities and potentialities of " which capture the imagination. Bulgaria is oer, a land of peasants and soldiers, 8 nation re-arming; a nation which Leeks to England, despite the. fact that economically' she is dominated by Germany.
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