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THE NEW YUGOSLAVIA. BELGRADE CHANGES. „GROWING PAINS.“

Belgrade is an encouraging sight to anyone accustomed to the comparative stagnation of most of the post-war capitals of Central Europe. Reconstruction hits one in the eye. The high ridge between the Save and the Danube on which the city stands is dotted with great piles of scaffolding and masses of new bricks and mortar. There are to be over 4,000 new buildings of more than three storeys completed this year alone. If one remembers that Belgrade was taken and retaken twice during the war, and partially destroyed by bombardment, and that roughly a quarter of the whole population of Serbia was wiped out, this creative energy says a great deal for the recuperative powers of the nation. Building activity is quite as much in evidence at Zagreb [Agram], the capital of Croatia, and the second largest town in the kingdom. A humdrum provincial town before the war, Zagreb is now fast adapting itself to become the commercial centre of Yugo-Slavia. A whole new business quarter is springing up, comp
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Nasedanje dra Lazice Markovića

Čitamo u „Republici“: Dr. Laza Marković izdao je knjigu na engleskom jeziku o našim prilikama. Cilj je knjige bio: propaganda. No ono, što je prolazilo za vrijeme rata, sada više ne prolazi. Za vrijeme rata pisalo se šta bilo, prelilo se sa sosom patriotizma i – gotovo. Sad se traži objektivnost, dobra argumentacija i poznavanje stvari. „Times“ (knj. dodatak br. 990) zove knjigu: „Kako to izgleda kroz srpske naočari“ i veli: „potpuno u duhu balkanske logomahije (besciljnog prosipanja riječi) ova knjiga (iznoseći srpsko stanovište, na jedan nacionalistički i patriotski način) baca dubokomislene, ali čisto trazaste udarce na svoje susjede“. „Times“ veli, da se tvrdjenja dra Lazice ne slažu s onim što su stranci vidjeli u Srbiji, jer dr. Marković svečano izjavljuje, da u pobjedničkoj Srbiji u srpskoj politici nema mjesta tajnim dogovorima i kombinacijama. „Times“ osporava vrlo učtivo ovo tvrdjenje dra Lazice. – Tako se kod nas piše za strance. Tako je i jedan diplomata izjavio u Italiji d
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THROUGH SERBIAN SPECTACLES

Serbia and Europe, 1914-1920. Edited, with a Preface, by Dr. L. Marcovitch . (Allen and Unwin. 16s. net.) Dr. Marcovitch has collected a number of articles which appeared during the course of the war in La Serbie, a journal of exile, which though published in Switzerland by men unable to remain in their own country by reason of the force majeure exercised by a conquering enemy, was yet able to preserve a continuous optimism, and at times to strike just such a note of triumph as might have been expected in the publications of victors writing from the capital of a free kingdom which saw its foes at its feet. As the articles are grouped according to subject, and are not necessarily in chronological order, it is difficult to trace the change or development of ideas exactly; yet it is apparent that this process took place. Naturally, in all circumstances, La Serbie presents its case from the natinal and patriotic point of view, and, in the true spirit of Balkan logomachy, deals shrewd verba
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