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- Title
SLOVENCI V JUGOSLOVANSKEM ODBORU IN LONDONSKI MEMORANDUM.
- Authors
GAČIĆ, Aleksandra
- Abstract
After the attack on the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Slovenes "faithfully" stood monarchy at hand and severely condemned Serbian action. But this was not the case for a handful of Slovenian costal region intellectuals, whose demands for secession from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the unification of the Southern Slavs into the monarchy became increasingly louder. Among others there were Otokar Rybář, Gustav Gregorin, Niko Zupanič, Bogumil Vošnjak and others who soon established contacts with Croatian emigrants. Croatian political emigrants, especially Istrian and Dalmatian politicians had already been connecting abroad and expressed desire for the Slovenian representatives to join them. The most active among Slovenian emigrants was certainly Bogumil Vošnjak, who shortly after the beginning of war fl ed abroad, where he came into contact with the head of the Croatian emigration Ante Trumbić. Despite the so-called secrets of the London Memorandum/Pact 1915, this could not long remain hidden from the eyes of the public, including representatives of the future Yugoslav Committee. In fact, a few days after the signing of the controversial Memorandum they have united in the so-called Yugoslav Committee. In order to convince international forces in the harmful consequences of Memorandum for the southern Slavs they gathered all their powers and started a propaganda campaign as well as arranged meetings with governing parties of world politics, to whom they explained what London Memorandum meant for their fate, and at the same time they demanded the right the merge into a unified and independent state, thus seceding from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Even Bogumil Vošnjak, with the assistance of his compatriots and members of the Yugoslav Committee succeeded to get in touch with senior foreign officials against whom he represented the views of the Yugoslav Committee and within them, the Slovenian request. As the only Slovenian under the auspices of the Yugoslav Committee, with the Serbian government he signed the Corfu Declaration and then went in search of supporters among American Slovenes. South Slavs of the monarchy with a union with Serbia and Montenegro in the common state made reality, and the fight against the provisions of the London Memorandum was moved to the negotiating venue of the Paris Peace Conference. The research is based on the material of the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia and the archive of Studia Slovenica as well as Vošnjak's published diary from World War I and other monographs associated with wartime operations, which he issued during his life.
- Publication
Acta Histriae, 2017, Vol 25, Issue 4, p1051
- ISSN
1318-0185
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19233/AH.2017.49