The Daily Alaska Empire

WASHINGTON—Interesting comparisons might be drawn from the behavior of the highly cultured, over-civilized Prince Paul, recently forced out of the Regency of Yugoslavia, and the behavior of the rough, uncultured peasants of Serbia. In fact, similar comparisons might be made with France, possibly even with other comfort-loving people.

Inside story of Prince Paul was that during the last war he went to England, while Prince Alexander, (later assassinated as King at Marseilles) struggled with his men over the Albanian Alps on the terrible retreat of 1915.

During that war Paul was asked many times to come back and don a uniform, but he remained in Oxford. He loved music, art, poetry, peace. He hated discomfort. And when Hitler demanded that Yugoslavia join the Axis, Paul preferred to take a chance on a peaceful future even if under Hitler.

There was nothing corrupt about Prince Paul (though this could not be said of certain Cabinet Ministers). He merely rebelled against the thought of picking up his government and living a hand-to-mouth existence while a temporary capital was set up in the mountains of central Serbia or on the plains of Macedonia. According to one diplomatic dispatch, the lack of plumbing in Monastir—where the new capital may be established—was especially repugnant to him.

On the other hand, Serb peasants knew both hardships, and what it was to fight in the last war. Of all the peoples who suffered from 1914 to 1918, none bled and died for their country more than the Serbs. Exactly one-third of the population was lost in those four bloody years.

And the most significant thing about their decision last week was

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