their loyalty to
the regenerated Serbs. Religious differences, political rivalries,
linguistic quibbles, and the petty foibles of centuries appeared to be
forgotten in the three short years which elapsed from Kumanovo to
the destruction of Serbia in 1915. The Greater Serbia idea had really
perished in 1915, as had the Greater Croatia idea in 1878. In their
place emerged Jugo-Slavia--the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and
Slovenes--implied by the South Slav Parliamentary Club in Austria in
their Declaration of May 30, 1917, and formulated by the Pact of Corfu
of July 7, 1917, which Pasie, premier of Serbia, and Trumbie, the head
of the London Jugo-Slav Committee, drew up. The evolution had been
completed. Nationalism had proved stronger than geography, stronger than
opposing religions, more cohesive than political and economic interests.
For this, the Jugo-Slavs have not only themselves and modern progress,
like railroad-building, to thank, but also the policy of the Habsburg
monarchy, the hopeful, though feeble, Note of the Allies to President
Wilson, the 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