SRPSKI GRAĐANSKI POLITIČKI KRUGOVI PREMA PITANJU PREUREĐENJA DRŽAVE I POLOŽAJU BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE
SERBIAN CIVIL POLITICAL CIRCLES ON THE QUESTION OF RENOVATING THE STATE AND THE POSITION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: The leading Serbian bourgeois political parteis, primarily the National Radical Party and the Yugoslav Democratic Party, played the decisive part after the I World War in the formation of the prewar Yugoslavia as a unitaristic-centralistic state. In this connection the author has brought forth the more important arguments that the advocates of such state organisation counterposed in the Constitutional Assem- bley againts all the proposals containing different state organization. In accordance with the affirmed state organization that was sanctioned by the Constitution of 1921, Bosnia and Herzegovina did not preserve its territorial integrity, since its territory was divided into duchies, the cutting into pieces of its territory becoming thus a reality. This means that a different treatment of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Yugoslav state community could be possible only if a new conception concerning the inner organization of Yugoslavia triumphed; the new conception should contain a negation of strict centralism and unitarism. The author thinks that it was important that inside the leading Serbian- political parties (as the most faithful follwers of the existing state organization) there should occur an evolution of the earlier accepted footings.

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