The paper presents the views of Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac on the victims from Sibinj during the 1935 election campaign. For the events in which 15 Croatian peasants were killed the authorities ...accused the peasants themselves and the pastor from Podcrkavlje Mihovil Praskić. Archbishop Stepinac had clearly pointed out the underlying cause of everything: the inequality between peoples and the tyranny of the police. He allowed the celebration of the memorial mass service for the killed peasants, which annoyed the authorities. Inspired by the example of Zagreb, memorial mass services were spontaneously celebrated in other places of the Archdiocese as well, for the victims of the crime for which nobody has answered.
U radu se predstavljaju pogledi nadbiskupa Alojzija Stepinca o sibinjskim žrtvama u vrijeme predizborne kampanje 1935. godine. Vlasti su za događaje u kojima je ubijeno 15 hrvatskih seljaka optužile ...same te seljake i župnika iz Podcrkavlja Mihovila Praskića. Nadbiskup Stepinac jasno je označio bitan uzrok svega: neravnopravnost naroda i samovolju žandara. Dopustio je služenje mise zadušnice za ubijene seljake, što je ogorčilo nositelje vlasti. Potaknuti zagrebačkim primjerom, spontano su i u drugim mjestima Nadbiskupije služene zadušnice za žrtve zločina za koji nitko nije odgovarao.
The paper presents the views of Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac on the victims from Sibinj during the 1935 election campaign. For the events in which 15 Croatian peasants were killed the authorities accused the peasants themselves and the pastor from Podcrkavlje Mihovil Praskić. Archbishop Stepinac had clearly pointed out the underlying cause of everything: the inequality between peoples and the tyranny of the police. He allowed the celebration of the memorial mass service for the killed peasants, which annoyed the authorities. Inspired by the example of Zagreb, memorial mass services were spontaneously celebrated in other places of the Archdiocese as well, for the victims of the crime for which nobody has answered.
This paper discusses the consecration of the flag and the 25th anniversary of the Davor Croatian Choral Society of Brod na Savi. The relevance of the celebration went beyond the local level. This ...cultural event in Brod was attended by numerous Croatian choral societies and indicated the significance of the contributions of these societies to the strengthening of the national consciousness. On the recommendation of the Croatian Choral Association, at this celebration the Croatian national anthem was performed for the first time. The meeting of Bishop Strossmayer, who consecrated the flag and was the true leader of the Independent People’s Party, known as the Obzoraši, and Baron Juraj Rukavina, the president of the political group Domovinaši, resulted in the forming of the Opposition Coalition established by these two parties for the elections in 1897. In 1903 this coalition merged into one party, the Croatian Party of Rights. This party was the main pillar of the Croat-Serb Coalition after its establishment in December 1905. The consecration of the flag and the 25th anniversary of the Davor Croatian Choral Society on August 15 and 16, 1896 in Brod was deemed an outstanding event on the local as well as on the national level. The consecration of the flag was performed by Bishop Strossmayer whose very presence was a recognition for “Davor” and the town of Brod. The preparations for the celebration started in 1893. However, not until two month before the celebration were crucial problems solved, such as the confirmation of regulations, which had gone missing in the offices of Banski dvori and the appearance of the flag, i.e. the prohibition of the coat of arms on the flag, which was stipulated in the regulations as the “coat of arms of the Croatian Kingdom”. All things considered, this celebration can be ranked among those cultural and national-political events that testify to the level of national consciousness of the Croatian people in the Brod area. The role of “Davor”, as of all Croatian choral societies in general, was of great significance. The contribution of “Davor” to this process in the Brod area as well as the strengthening of national consciousness of the Croatian population in Bosnia and Herzegovina was extremely important. Khuen’s political idea of reducing the Croatian name to just a geographical term and treating “slavonstvo” (Slavonian affiliation) and “dalmatinstvo” (Dalmatian affiliation) as equivalent to the Croatian name, was destined to fail at events such as the consecration of the Davor flag. The Greater-Serbian idea of the Serbian parties in Croatia, which did not acknowledge the term “Croatia” as an integrative term and rather made use of regionalisms (Slavonia, Syrmia, Zagorje, Croatia, Lika, Kordun, Banija, Dalmatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina), was also found unacceptable during such events.
This paper analyses a letter and an article of Robert Schuman in which he expressed great sympathy for the fight of the Croatian people against the dictatorship of the monarchist Yugoslavia. By using ...his influence, he endeavored to change the well established attitude of the French public on the circumstances in Yugoslavia, particularly in Croatia, an attitude that had been created by Yugoslav diplomacy and by venal newspaper.
Milan Kerdić belongs to the group of young people who were the fi rst to reestablish
the Party of Rights, which after the Rakovica catastrophe had practically
ceased to exist. He fi nished primary ...school in his birthplace Svinjar (today’s Davor),
junior high school classes in Požega, he graduated from high school in Osijek and fi -
nished legal studies in Zagreb. During his studies there was a demonstration of young
Party of Rights’ members against Italian language in the Croatian Theatre in Zagreb;
Kerdić was a participant. While a student he worked as Zagreb correspondent for the
Party of Rights newspaper Sloboda. After fi nishing his studies he went to Sušak and
worked as main assistant, and later, while still young, he became editor-in-chief of
the Party of Rights’ newspaper in November 1880. In crucial moments, when he had
to react promptly in regard to very essential matters, Kerdić proved to be determined
and enterprising. This case involved the future of the fi rm Primorska tiskara and the
newspaper Sloboda. At the beginning of January 1881 he managed to buy the printing
house as well as Sloboda with money collected from party members and the adherents
of the Party of Rights and thereby prevented the great district prefect Ljudevit Reizner
from destroying “that baneful newspaper” of Sušak. In February 1881 Ante Starčević
moved to Sušak which was very helpful for the progress of Sloboda. During the period
Milan Kerdić was chief editor, Sloboda was the most persecuted and most often
seized Croatian opposition newspaper. Each seizure implied also a penalty as well as
loss from the guarantee, however, Kerdić succeeded in maintaining the newspaper
until the beginning of 1884 when it was transferred to Zagreb.
A reliable witness, Dušan Lopašić, who at the beginning of 1881 joined the editorship
of Sloboda, affi rmed the simplicity, devotion and modesty of Milan Kerdić, the
longest-lasting chief editor of Sloboda. Lopašić confi rms: “He was one of the lucky
ones who heard and listened to the Old Man; indeed, he was his student.” With every
breath, heartbeat and every thought he was a Pravaš (member of the Party of Rights).
Such people are hard to fi nd these days.” After the newspaper had been transferred
to Zagreb, Fran Folnegović took over the editing, while Kerdić remained a member
of the editorship. So far it remains unknown when Kerdić moved to Brod to become
a solicitor’s clerk in Dr Ignjat Brlić’s lawyer’s offi ce, inherited by Vatroslav Brlić.
Most certainly it was before or at the very beginning of 1891. In Brod he continued
his collaboration with newspapers of the Party of Rights such as Hrvatska and Trn.
This work analyses the political work of Dr. Gjuro Pilar, Member of Croatian Parliament (Sabor) from Brod, elected in 1883 during the fi rst parliamentary elections after the reincorporation of the ...Military Frontier. Pilar did not show any great political talent and in that domain he was far behind his own achievements as a scientist. Political opponents of the Party of Right acknowledged Pilar’s great scientific reputation and personal honesty, but considered him to be “a veritable child” as far as politics was concerned. In Parliament he signed the “Declaration” of the twelve newly elected Members of Parliament of the Military Frontier disputing the validity and constitutionality of the Hungarian-Croatian Agreement. The result of his eight-month work in the Croatian Parliament were two interpellations in which Pilar’s sensitivity to the everyday problems of common people is visible and a speech in which he emphasized the role of the bureaucracy in elections siding with the governmental candidate, which was the characteristic of all parliamentary elections in Croatia.
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