„БРИТАНСКИ ПРИЈАТЕЉИ” И ДРЖАВНОПРАВНИ РАЗВОЈ КРАЉЕВИНЕ ЈУГОСЛАВИЈЕ
“BRITISH FRIENDS” AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE KINGDOM OF YUGOSLAVIA

Summary/Abstract: The theme of this paper is the role of public workers, scientists and journalists of the United Kingdom, so-called British friends of Yugoslavia, in the creation and the state-development of the first South Slavs state. They, before the official London, advocated the demolition of the Austro-Hungarian and Yugoslav unification, opposed the stereotypes that had existed in Serbia since 1903, and then supported the revisionism of British public opinion. At the time of the creation of Yugoslavia, for the federalist concept of its organization, they would consistently represent the interests of the bearers of this concept, the Croatian Peasant Party, ie the Peasant-Democratic Coalition, in the interim Serbo-Croatian dispute. Considering the solution of the Croatian issue as the most important task of Yugoslav politics, they, using their political and diplomatic ties, explained before their own government the need for an official engagement on Serbian-Croatian relations with their significance for stability in the region and in Europe. The controversy caused by their engagement in the Yugoslav public is testified by the fact that the most prominent representative of this part of the British public, Robert William Sutton-Watson, was regarded in Yugoslavia at the same time as “the enemy of Yugoslavia” (J. Ljubic) and “the greatest friend Yugoslavia ever had” (M. Ćurčin).

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