Prethodno priopćenje
Our Emigration in Bolivia Vis-a-Vis the National Liberation War and the Country’s Renovation
Ljubomir Antić
; Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Immediately after the Kingdom of Yugoslavia had been attacked by the fascists and split up, the Yugoslav National Defence (YND), a political organisation of our emigration that had been founded during the First World War, was revived in South America. A lack of agreement, a gap between the leadership and the membership, and an attachment to the royal governments in exile brought about the progressively oriented emigrants’ separation from the YND. They established special organisations with the purpose of providing moral and material support to the National Liberation War. The case in point in Bolivia were the Committees of South Slavs in South America, founded in the summer of 1944. The basic organisations were the Local Committees, which were then incorporated at the level of individual states into the Provincial Committees, which were to constitute the United Committee of the South Slavs in South America on a continent level. So the organisation aspired after spreading throughout South America, but it failed in this connection. Only one more of its intended branches was established in Punta Arenas, Chile, besides Bolivia. A more serious initiative for collecting funds for the benefit of the home country was launched in the summer of 1945, and was a great success.
Ključne riječi
emigrants; Yugoslav National Defence; National Liberation War; Bolivia; South America
Hrčak ID:
128789
URI
Datum izdavanja:
28.11.1986.
Posjeta: 1.305 *