such as Slovenes, Croats, Montenegrins, Serbs, and Macedonians are joined together at least
temporily as Partisians. So are the city and country people--always in the past an important and
serious split in the Jugoslav population. On the other hand, and as against this merging of
religious and regional groups within the country, the polictical groups are still numerous and
reconciled. There are a t least two kinds of royalists--a large peasant group who gives a blind and
traditional loyalty to the royal dynasty without regard to the merits and demerits of the indiviual
incumbent, and the more politically minded royalists who, by virtue of past commitments or future
personal benefits which they envision from the success of the royal party, are placing their efforts
back of restoring the King to his throne. There are besides a multitiude of individual groups, such
as the Bella Garda, Nedic's State Guard, the Rupniks, the Domobran, ect.. Also, there are the
Communist, about whom everyone now asks "how close is their tie to Russia and how strictly do
they hew to the party line?" ; and still further there are the Pan-Slavs, the strength of whose
numbers as well as the vitality of whose principles require to be estimated. It has been said that
whereever two or three Balkans are gathered together you have the makings of four political
parties, and it is scarely possible to over-estimate the complexities, both actual and potential, of
the present Jugoslav situation. Accordingly  it is very