"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
on parallel lines, views have been exchanged in collaboration with the
president of the Skupstina, on all questions concerning the life of the
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in their joint future State.
We are happy in being able once more on this occasion to point to the
complete unanimity of all parties concerned.
In the first place, the representatives of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
declare anew and most categorically that our people constitutes but
one nation, and that it is one in blood, one by the spoken and written
language, by the continuity and unity of the territory in which it lives,
and finally in virtue of the common and vital interests of its national
existence and the general development of its moral and material life.
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