The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav MovementPetrunkevitch, Alexander
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The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav Movement
Petrunkevitch, Alexander
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936; Yugoslavs
The Jugo-Slav movement has ended in the formation of a nation which is
neither a doctrine, nor a dream, but a reality.
APPENDICES DECLARATION OF THE JUGO-SLAV CLUB OF THE AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT
ON MAY 30, 1917
"The undersigned deputies, assembled as the 'Jugo-slav Club,' taking
their stand on the principle of nationalities and on the rights of the
Croatian state, declare that they demand that all the countries in which
Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs live shall be united in an independent
and democratic state organism, free from the domination of any foreign
nation and placed under the sceptre of the dynasty Habsburg-Lorraine.
They declare that they will employ all their forces to realize this
demand of their single nation. The undersigned will take part in the
parliamentary labor after having made this reserve...."
[FN: Referring to the Declaration of the Jugo-Slav Club, May
30, 1917, in the Vienna Parliament J. J. Grgurevich,
Secretary of the South Slavic National Council, Washington,
D. C., writes:
"In order to understand correctly this Declaration, it is
necessary to state that the same was presented in the Vienna
Parliament during war time, when each, even the most
innocent, word in regard to rights, principles of
nationality, and liberty of peoples, was considered and
punished as a crime and treason, by imprisonment, even
death.
"Were it not for these facts, this Declaration would never
contain the words: 'and placed under the sceptre of the
dynasty Habsburg-Lorraine.' It was, therefore, necessary to
insert these words in order to make possible the public
announcement of this Declaration; it was necessary to make a
moral sacrifice for the sake of a great moral and material
gain, which was secured through this Declaration among the
people to which it was addressed and which understood it in
the sense and in the spirit of the Declaration of Corfu."]
APPENDIX II
THE PACT OF CORFU
At the conference of the members of the late (Serbian) Coalition Cabinet
and those of the present Cabinet, and also the representatives of the
Jugo-Slav Committee in London, all of whom have hitherto been working
on parallel lines, views have been exchanged in collaboration with the
president of the Skupstina, on all questions concerning the life of the
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in their joint future State.
We are happy in being able once more on this occasion to point to the
complete unanimity of all parties concerned.
In the first place, the representatives of the Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes declare anew and most categorically that our people constitutes
but one nation, and that it is one in blood, one by the spoken and
written language, by the continuity and unity of the territory in which
it lives, and finally in virtue of the common and vital interests of its
national existence and the general development of its moral and material
life.
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