Original scientific paper
NEW CONTRIBUTIONS TO MILE BUDAK'S BIOGRAPHY ON THE EVE OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Tomislav Jonjić
; Zagreb, Croatia
Stjepan Matković
; Craotian Institute for History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Despite high numbers of studies concerning the Ustasha Movement
(Ustaški Pokret UP), there are still open questions on this issue. The focal point of authors interest in this article is Mile Budak's return to the homeland in 1938, an event that strongly resounded. On his coming to home from Italian emigration, he reactivated own political career. He began to take a more active role in public political life as editor of the daily newspaper Hrvatski narod during which he emerged as the leader of the UP's branch in Croatia. After return to Zagreb, Budak supported the leading position of the Croat Peasant
Party, (Hrvatska seljačka stranka, HSS) for a while. Shortly afterwards he rejected cooperation with the HSS because of different political views . In fact, the authors show how Budak used Italo-Yugoslav rapprochement for his literary work, describing his poor living condition in emigration, and confirming his comittment to the idea of an Independent Croatian State in spite of manoeuvring
in accepting overture with Yugoslav government officals. According to
their research, there is no evidence about tense relations between Budak and Ante Pavelić, who was the leader of the UP. This article is supplemented with five documents, including one which was published before but is now for the first time translated from Italian into Croatian. Of four documents, there are three private letters from Budak written in Messina, Italy.
Keywords
political emigrées; Ustasha movement; Ciano-Stojadinović agreement
Hrčak ID:
30606
URI
Publication date:
7.10.2008.
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