[Footnote: Referring to the Declaration of the Jugo-Slav Club, May 30,
1917, in the Vienna Parliament J. J. Grgurevich, Secretary of the South
Slavic National Council, Washington, D. C., writes:

"In order to understand correctly this Declaration, it is necessary to
state that the same was presented in the Vienna Parliament during war time,
when each, even the most innocent, word in regard to rights, principles of
nationality, and liberty of peoples, was considered and punished as a crime
and treason, by imprisonment, even death.

"Were it not for these facts, this Declaration would never contain the
words: 'and placed under the sceptre of the dynasty Habsburg-Lorraine.'
It was, therefore, necessary to insert these words in order to make
possible the public announcement of this Declaration; it was necessary to
make a moral sacrifice for the sake of a great moral and material gain,
which was secured through this Declaration among the people to which it was
addressed and which understood it in the sense and in the spirit of the
Declaration of Corfu."]




APPENDIX II

THE PACT OF CORFU

At the conference of the members of the late (Serbian) Coalition Cabinet
and those of the present Cabinet, and also the representatives of the
Jugo-Slav Committee in London, all of whom have hitherto been working