Photograph by Frederick Moore 



SERBIAN PEASANTS OF JUGOSLAVIA 



To unite all the Jngo-Slavs has long been the aspiration of leaders among the Croats and 

 Slavonians as well as those in the Kingdom of Serbia. The ambitious program of these nation 

 builders includes the union of Croats, Slavonians, Dalmatians, Bosnians, Helvats, Montenegrins, 

 and Serbs into one State. One of the greatest obstacles to the proposed federation is the 

 religious antagonism evidenced toward one another by adherents of the Eastern Orthodox 

 Church, the Roman Catholics, and the Moslems. Powerful factors exist which are favorable 

 to cooperation, however. The peoples are racially one, and they are confronted everywhere 

 by foreigners. It remains to be seen whether the bonds of race and of language are sufficiently 

 strong to overcome the disruptive forces of internal political jealousies and religious animosi- 

 ties. Another serious difficulty which the statesmen of Jugo-Slavia must face is their own 

 inexperience in practical statecraft and the inexperience of their people in self-government 

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