ITALIJANSKA DIPLOMATIJA I HRVATSKO PITANJE 1928 - 1935
THE ITALIAN DIPLOMACY AND THE CROATIAN QUESTION 1928 - 1936

Summary/Abstract: The Italian diplomatic representatives followed attentively the internal policy movements in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. According to their observations, during the 1928 - 1936 period the prevailing mood among the leaders of the Croatian civil parties was that of overthrowing the regime of King Alexander and solving the Croatian question by separating Croatia from the joint state of South Slavs. The leadership of the HSS (Croatian Peasant Party) and Maček himself, estimating the situation in the country after the assassination at the Assembly in June 1928, decided upon the separatistic solution of the Croatian question with the help of the Italians and such views remained until the death of King Alexander in October 1934. Italian documents show that even after 1934 Maček had not abandoned the idea of creating the Croatian state, but on account of the political circumstances he accepted the idea of creating the Croatian state within the existing Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He led the fight for achieving this with great patience and applying legal means. The creation of the Croatia „banovina” which he talked about on several occasions at the beginning of the Thirties as of a transitional period towards the creation of the Croatian state, ascertained that his policy in solving the Croatian question was the right one. The view of Dr Ante Trumbić, the leader of the Croatian federalists, on the solution of the Croatian question is shown differently by the Italian sources and by our historiography. As there existed slight chances for a federalists rearrangement of the state. Dr Ante Trumbić accepted the idea of creating a Croatian state as the solution to the Croatian question. In time, Trumbić switched more and more to the separatists solution of the Croatian question and since 1936, i. e. the disagreement between Pavelić and Maček, Trumbić represented the separatistic, „Prava” party solution of the Croatian question.

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