Original scientific paper
Emigrant Issues in Ante Biankini's Letters to Ante Trumbić (1903)
Ljubomir ANTIĆ
Abstract
Quoted and critically presented in the paper are two letters
written in the midst of the popular anti-Hungarian movement in
1903 by the eminent emigration official in the US dr Ante
Biankini and addressed to one of the most renowned Dalmatian
politicians dr. Ante Trumbi}. The letters are confidential in
character: Biankini is asking Trumbi} for instructions on how to
react to different or even the most radical solutions in the country
and diaspora (encouraged from Croatia) to growing Hungarian
pressure. As a result of this correspondence a cooperative
relationship was established, which was to have repercussions on
later political events, especially during the First World War. In
addition to information and assessment in the political sphere,
Biankini writes to Trumbić about the general state of Croatian
emigrants in the US. He especially turns his attention to the
emigrants': social status, degree of integration into American
society, organisation, mentality, political culture, relationship
towards the homeland, the state of the second generation in
which the process of assimilation can be observed and he also
deals with predictions as to whether and how many emigrants
will return to their home country. This gives the documents in
question special value and makes them relevant for publication.
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17973
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Publication date:
31.10.2005.
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