Talk:Alexander I of Yugoslavia

I noticed some egregious editorializing in the article, such as:

In September 1932, Alexander's friend, the Croat politician Ante Trumbić, gave an interview to The Manchester Guardian newspaper, in which he stated that life for ordinary Croats was better when they were part of the Austrian empire and stated that perhaps the Croats would be better off if they broke away from Yugoslavia to form their own state. For Alexander, who always respected and liked Trumbić, to see his former friend come very close to embracing Croat separatism was a painful blow.

This latter sentence is clearly ignoring the overall context in favor of a narrative promoted by the kingdom itself at the time. It makes the article look slanted in favor of the king.

I looked up that 2007 book chapter and the Google Books showed me pages 78 and 79 which say:

For the first time the elder statesman of the Yugoslav Committee floated the idea of breaking up the state to which he had devoted so much of his life. In a bombshell interview with the Manchester Guardian newspaper, Ante Trumbić wondered whether Croatia should separate from Yugoslavia and pursue a union with Austria. After all, Croats had been happier in their previous life in the Monarchy than they had ever been in Yugoslavia. Aleksandar, who had always liked and respected Trumbić for his service to the country, took these words hard, but there was more bad news to come.

So the reference doesn't really support this sort of heart-break that our article promotes, and it actually paints Trumbić in a positive light, much more so than the king.

This reminded me of Talk:Peter II of Yugoslavia#meandering stories about WWII politics that I noticed earlier. So I checked for editing patterns, and found that the text was added in this 2018 edit by the same editor who had some of the liberal edits over there. @A.S. Brown can you please clean this up? --Joy (talk) 14:16, 12 February 2026 (UTC)