Original scientific paper
Two episodes from the life of Jozo Kljaković. “Yugoslav phase” and controversial article “The Croats at the II Vatican Council”
Josip Dukić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8742-8661
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split
Abstract
The subject of this work is two episodes from the life
J. Kljaković. The first one refers to his so called “Yugoslav
phase” (1910 – 1918), when he, caught by the idea of Yugoslav
nationalism, lived and worked in Serbia, convinced that the easiest
way to settle the Croatian issue is through allying with the Serbs.
It is the least investigated period of Kljaković’s life. Although he
himself openly wrote about his accepting the Yugoslav ideas,
which he later on rejected, some persons did not hesitate to put
forward, never quoting the source, the assertions by which they
wrongly interpreted Kljaković’s past and thus confused the public.
The second episode, which has never been studied so far, is
the relationship between Jozo Kljaković and the editorial board of
a well known magazine The Croatian Review i.e. its chief editor
Vinko Nikolić. Although they had had a constructive cooperation
and almost friendly relationship as long as up to 1963, it worsened
in the mentioned year because of the article The Croats at the
II Vatican Council published under a pseudonym. The article
was severely condemned by Mirko Živković, brothers Josip and
Stjepan Torbar and J. Kljaković, who then received a sharp and
long replication by some anonymous authors. All that turned
into a violent polemics, matched by mutual accusations, and
even insults, which resulted in an intensified conflict between
Kljaković and Vinko Nikolić, as well as with Krunoslav Draganović
whom Kljaković, together with the priest Ivan Tomas, thought to
be the author, or at least the mentor, of the controversial text.
The polemics were closed by the rupture of cooperation between
Kljaković and The Croatian Review.
Keywords
Jozo Kljaković; Yugoslav nationalism; The Croatian review; Vinko Nikolić; Krunoslav Draganović; Croats at the II Vatican Council, St. Jerome’s Institute; Đuro Kokša
Hrčak ID:
66172
URI
Publication date:
4.4.2011.
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