On the Link between the Miles Mission Reports and the 1919 Plebiscite Decision in Paris: What is the Evidence of the Reports Themselves? Cover Image

Povezave med poročili Milesove misije in odločitvijo mirovne konference v Parizu za plebiscit na Koroškem leta 1919. Kakšen dokaz so poročila sama?
On the Link between the Miles Mission Reports and the 1919 Plebiscite Decision in Paris: What is the Evidence of the Reports Themselves?

Author(s): Tom Priestly
Contributor(s): Andrej Turk (Translator)
Subject(s): Political history, International relations/trade, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Geopolitics, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino
Keywords: Austria; Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes; Carinthia; plebiscite; USA; Paris Peace Konference 1919; Sherman Miles;

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of a linguistic analysis of twelve documents of American origin, dealing with the situation in Carinthia, on which, at a peace conference after the First World War, the US based its decision on the determination of the border between Austria and the Yugoslav stale, as well as the areas in which a plebiscite was to be carried out in October 1920, the author presents the emphases which were decisive in the taking of these decisions. He further presents the message of these reports: whether they emphasised territorial (geographical) factors or nationalistic (ethnic) ones - or the territorial (economic) unity of Carinihia or the ethnic structure of its population. He also presents the views of Austrian and Slovene historiography on the geographical and nationalistic factors in the context of the 1920 Carinthian plebiscit.

  • Issue Year: 45/2005
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-21
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Slovenian