The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav MovementPetrunkevitch, Alexander
History
The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav Movement
Petrunkevitch, Alexander
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936; Yugoslavs
(10) In the interests of freedom and of the equal right of all nations,
the Adriatic shall be free and open to each and all.
(11) All citizens throughout the territory of the Kingdom shall be equal
and enjoy the same rights with regard to the State and before the Law.
(12) The election of the Deputies to the National Representative body
shall be by universal suffrage, with equal, direct and secret ballot.
The same shall apply to the elections in the Communes and other
administrative units. Elections will take place in each Commune.
(13) The Constitution, to be established after the conclusion of peace
by a Constituent Assembly elected by universal suffrage, with direct
and secret ballot, will be the basis of the entire life of the State;
it will be the source and the consummation of all authority and of all
rights by which the entire life of the nation will be regulated.
The Constitution will provide the nation with the possibility of
exercising its special energies in local autonomies delimited by
natural, social and economic conditions.
The Constitution must be passed in its entirety by a numerically defined
majority in the Constituent Assembly. The Constitution, like all other
laws passed by the Constituent Assembly, will only come into force after
having received the Royal sanction.
The nation of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, thus unified, will form
a State of about twelve million inhabitants. This State will be the
guarantee for their independence and national development, and their
national and intellectual progress in general, a mighty bulwark against
the German thrust, an inseparable ally of all the civilized nations and
states which have proclaimed the principle of right and liberty and
that of international justice. It will be a worthy member of the new
Community of Nations.
Drawn up in Corfu, July 7/20, 1917.
The Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia and Minister for Foreign
Affairs
(Sgd.) NIKOLA P. PASHITCH,
The President of the Jugo-Slav Committee
(Sgd.) DR. ANTE TRUMBIC,
Advocate, Deputy and Leader of the Croatian National Party in the
Dalmatian Diet, late Mayor of Split (Spalato), late Deputy for the
District of Zadar (Zara) in the Austrian Parliament. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
HINTS
THE following bibliography is nothing but a selected list and it has
not seemed advisable to include material which is to be found in
periodicals. [FN: For further information the investigator may
consult _Slavic Europe: A Selected Bibliography in the Western European
Languages comprising History, Languages, and Literature_. By R. J.
Kerner. In press.]
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