Russian Revolution, and the entry of the United States into the war.

For the historian, it remains to examine the depth and the character of the
movement. He should neither lament that it succeeded, nor frown upon it
that it did not come long ago when his own nation achieved its unity. That
it is a reality is proved by the fact that the Central Powers believed
its destruction worth this catastrophic war. A nation of eleven or twelve
millions holds the path to the Adriatic and the Aegean and the gateway to
the Orient and world dominion. It can help to make impossible the dream of
mid-Europe or of Pan-Germany.

The Jugo-Slav movement has ended in the formation of a nation which is
neither a doctrine, nor a dream, but a reality.




APPENDICES DECLARATION OF THE JUGO-SLAV CLUB OF THE AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT

ON MAY 30, 1917

"The undersigned deputies, assembled as the 'Jugo-slav Club,' taking their
stand on the principle of nationalities and on the rights of the Croatian
state, declare that they demand that all the countries in which Slovenes,
Croats, and Serbs live shall be united in an independent and democratic
state organism, free from the domination of any foreign nation and placed
under the sceptre of the dynasty Habsburg-Lorraine. They declare that they
will employ all their forces to realize this demand of their single nation.
The undersigned will take part in the parliamentary labor after having made
this reserve...."