The reconstruction of South-Eastern Europe

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF

that the long neglected or simply ignored Southern Slav question had come into the foreground and could no longer be put off. But the importance of that question is even yet dimly conceived and hardly generally understood; although very able political men in England have clearly professed that the Southern Slav question is a big European problem, and requires to be treated according to its importance, independent of any temporary policy of Great Britain towards Russia or to any other State of Europe. It will be the key of the remaking of all Europe on a new and broader basis.

Meanwhile since the outbreak of the present war, the British pioneers and the British public have already done very much. The Southern Slav claims to freedom, unity, and self-government have been met in Great Britain with warm and sincere sympathy.

Serbia in her heroic struggle has received all assistance moral and material, not only from the British Government, but from the British public —which is rather more important, and a pledge of fruitful results beneficient to both nations.

First the correspondents of British papers, all of them independent and unprejudiced observers, have proved themselves without a single exception sincere and convinced champions of the Southern Slav cause, after having visited Serbia and been acquainted on the spot with the Serbian nation and its aspirations. After them the

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