For Unity

Yugoslavia's bright-eyed, bustling Premier Ivan Subasich at last put together a new Cabinet. It was a notable achievement--Yugoslavia's nearest approach yet to a national Government, a sharp defeat for General Draja Mihailovich and his intra-nationalist Serbs, a solid victory for Communist Marshal Tito and his Partisans.

Dr. Subasich had traveled 9,000 miles: from the U.S. to Britain to Yugoslavia and back to Britain. He had bridged the chasm between young King Peter and Marshal Tito. He had found a way to reconcile British and Russian interest. He came up with a Cabinet of veteran, moderate politicians representing Yugoslavia's Croat and Slovene groups and those Serbs who had fallen in with Tito.*

For Federation. Marshal Tito had played an astute hand in his parley with Premier Subasich last month on the Dalmatian island of Vis. The Partisan leader did not insist on Communist representation in the Government. No lover of the monarchy, he agreed to serve under Peter for the duration; after the war a national plebiscite would decide the King's future. In return. Marshal Tito won the support of Yugoslavia's royal (and legitimate) Government.

One of the new ministers, Sava Kosanovich, had been in New York since 1941. He said that one of Tito's pet projects will be one of the new Government's major objectives: a federal Yugoslavia that would break the old dominance of the Serbs, perhaps be joined by the Bulgars, Albanians and Macedonians, eventually expand into a strong, united Balkan confederation.

For Serbia. Moderate Yugoslavs, immensely heartened, paid tribute to Dr. Subasich's personal triumph. But the Serbs of Serbia were still to be heard from (many "Serbs" live in Croatia, Bosnia, etc.). Winston Churchill had truly said that the Serbian problem could not be dismissed by dismissing Draja Mihailovich. Yugoslavia's chances for permanent unity still depend on the new Government's success in dealing with the proud, tough Serbs of Serbia.

* For the Serbs: Professor Sreten Vukosavljevich, Dr. Sava Kosanovich and two unnamed men en route from Serbia. For the Croats: Dr. Subasich and Dr. Juraj Sutej. For the Slovenes: Drajo Marusich and Professor Izidor Cankar.

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