With the Serbs in Macedonia

268 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
and with full confidence in my Royal words,
until our State gives them by constitutional
methods, their land, which shall henceforth
belong only to God and themselves, even as it
was in Serbia of yore. All social relations have
been profoundly dislocated by the four years'
war. For a speedy and satisfactory clearing up
of these relations, and in order that the country
may return to normal conditions, my Government
will devote its chief care to the food supply
of the nation, more especially of the poorer
classes, to the relief and support of those who
have suffered from the war, to the reconstruction
of our devastated and plundered country,
and the establishment of regular communications
by land and by sea, which is the first
condition for sound economic development.
The first and foremost duty of my Government
in this fateful hour will be to take special
care that at the conclusion of the World Peace
our frontiers are drawn in such a way that they
agree truly with the ethnographic boundaries of
our whole nation, so that no one part of our
Kingdom may come under foreign domination.
To be successful in this it is imperatively
necessary that our young State should gather
together and unite all its moral and material
forces it is ; necessary that its internal life
remain strong and vigorous ; wherefore I call
sons of our
upon all good citizens and loyal
Kingdom by word, deed and example to help
my Government in its efforts to go on main-