The author stresses, that the majority of Slovens, before 1918, imagined Yugoslavia as an independent state without Serbia and Montenegro. He underscores, that Slovenian politicians had, at the time of the end of World War I, been so disoriented and uninformed, that they were mostly able only to follow events, wherever they took them. The fear of national extinction under German supremacy, which is understandable, was also present, but it does not justify the lack of knowledgeability of Yugoslav nationalities, their customs, mentality and political methods. There had been sufficient time for our politicians to have acquired the necessary information on close-by and distant Yugoslavs.