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https://doi.org/10.47960/2712-1844.2017.3.213
Viribus Unitis - Croatian Political Emigration under the Critical View of Zarko Vlaho
Zlatko Matijević
; Hrvatski institut za povijest, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Croatian Catholic
Movement was founded in the Triune Kingdom of
Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia, as well as in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, the countries within the Austro-Hungarian
Monarchy. In 1912/1913 the Croatian Catholic Seniority
was established, the leading organization of the entire
Catholic movement in Croatian countries. Part of the
Seniors (so called "nationals") opted for Yugoslav ideology
and actively engaged in the demolition of the Monarchy
and the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
/ Yugoslavia during the First World War. After the
establishment of a new state, Seniority for Herzegovina
(1919) was organized in Mostar, under the leadership of
Fr. Dominik Mandic (senior national). One of the most
important members of the Seniority was Zarko Vlaho
(1895-1960), Mandic's friend and associate. Seniors sought
to realize their political ideas through the Croatian People's
Party. In the period of multi-party parliamentary democracy,
their members were the most controversial opponents
of Stjepan Radic and his Croatian Peasant Party.
After the end of World War II, Vlaho, after shorter detention
in Italy, joined his family in Argentina (1947). Reflecting
on the Croatian political emigration, in his book
Viribus Unitis (1950), he fiercely criticized the attempts
of former Ustashi movement members to organize their
parties. Putting under his Catholic scalpel Vladko Macek,
the president of HSS, Vlaho took up the task of gathering
all the Croatian emigrant forces around him, holding that
Macek was the only person who could, through his political
authority and Catholic worldview and international
reputation, lead to the creation of an independent Croatian
state. In his endeavor, Vlaho deliberately neglected the
facts that did not support his claims (Macek's non-transparent
political statements, his civil marriage etc.).
Vlaho's thoughts did not echo among a wider circle of political emigrants scattered from Europe and Africa to North and South America.
Ključne riječi
Zarko Vlaho; Dominik Mandic; Vladko Macek; Aloysius Stepinac; Viribus Unitis; Croatia; Catholic church; Croatian Catholic Movement; Ustashi movement; totalitarianism; political emigration; political parties
Hrčak ID:
187174
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Datum izdavanja:
5.10.2017.
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