War Depths Of The Serbian Kingdom: In The Light Of The Politics Cover Image

Ratni dugovi Kraljevine Srbije u svetlu politike
War Depths Of The Serbian Kingdom: In The Light Of The Politics

Author(s): Ivan M. Becić
Subject(s): History
Published by: Institut za savremenu istoriju, Beograd
Keywords: Kingdom of Serbia; loan; war debts; reparations; Germany

Summary/Abstract: Huge costs on Kingdom of Serbia war efforts 1914-1915, become even larger, when the Serbian Government and military left the territory of the Kingdom in 1915- 1916 to find a refugee in Greek island of Corfu. Money was loaned from France, great Britain and the United States. It was partly received as money, and partly as military- tehnical aid and through other means. The complex way of distributing the military aid from France to the Serbian Army, and problematic relations of the administration from the French military authorities in the Macedonian theatre, produced the peculiar situation that in several cases, the material was not delivered, or it was administrated for a several times, that enlarging the sumes that Serbia was credited. Question of the war depths size was latter raised by the Croatian politicians, in parlamentary debates. They claimed that Serbia was enormously burdened Kingdom of SHS finances. Process of solving of the Serbian war depths, did not started immediately after the First World War concluded, but later. Mostly thanks to the flow of the war reparations, dedicated to cover the war dam- aged caused to the Serbia. Reparations provided important contribution in state budget. Values of the reparations were importantly higher than annual sums for the war depths. On the basis of this survey, author concluded, that Serbian war depths were managed though the flow of the sums of the war reparations.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 45-56
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Serbian