To noble France, who has proclaimed the liberty of nations, and to England,
the hearth of liberty, the Great American Republic and the new, free and
democratic Russia have joined themselves in proclaiming as their principal
war aim the triumph of liberty and democracy and as basis of the new
international order the right of free self-determination for every nation.
Our nation of the three names, which has been the greatest sufferer under
brute force and injustice and which has made the greatest sacrifices to
preserve its right of self-determination, has with enthusiasm accepted
this sublime principle put forward as the chief aim of this atrocious war,
provoked by the violation of this very principle.
The authorized representatives of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, in
declaring that it is the desire of our people to free itself from every
foreign yoke and to constitute itself a free, national and independent
State, a desire based on the principle that every nation has the right to
decide its own destiny, are agreed in judging that this State should be
founded on the following modern and democratic principles:
(1) The State of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, who are also known as the
Southern Slavs or Jugo-Slavs, will be a free and independent kingdom, with
indivisible territory and unity of allegiance. It will be a constitutional,
democratic and parliamentary monarchy under the Karageorgevitch Dynasty,
which has always shared the ideas and the feelings of the nation, placing
liberty and the national will above all else.
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