Yugoslav Committee

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The members of the Yugoslav Committee in 1916

The Yugoslavian Committee ( Serbo-Croatian  Jugoslavenski odbor ), also known as the South Slavic Committee , was an association of South Slavic politicians from the Habsburg monarchy , which was founded in exile after the outbreak of World War I and represented the ideology of Yugoslavism . With the Declaration of Corfu of July 20, 1917, the committee reached an agreement on the establishment of a united kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes under the rule of the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty , a prerequisite for the establishment of the "First Yugoslavia" in 1918.

Founded on April 30, 1915 in London , the Yugoslav Committee consisted of 11 Croatians , 2 Slovenes and 2 Serbs . The committee's elected president was Ante Trumbić , a member of the Vienna Imperial Council and the Dalmatian Parliament, and leader of the largest Croatian party in Dalmatia .

The committee pursued the following goals:

  1. Fight against the London Treaty of April 26, 1915, which assured the Kingdom of Italy, in addition to other areas, the preservation of Istria (except Rijeka ) and northern and central Dalmatia with the offshore islands for its entry into the war
  2. Loyal policy to the Entente powers
  3. Propaganda for the unification of the Croats, Slovenes and Serbs into an independent state based on the equality of peoples
  4. Establishing the agreement of the Serbian government

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ferdo Šišić : Dokumenti o postanku kraljevine SHS Zagreb 1920, p. 36 .
  2. ^ Zoran Tomić: La Formation de l'Etat Yougoslave . Paris 1927, p. 95 .
  3. ↑ Josip Horvat: Politička povijest Hrvatske . Zagreb 1938, p. 128 .