The Serbian Minister in London, Mateja Bošković, the Yugoslav Committee, and Serbia's Yugoslav Policy in the Great War, 1914-1916
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This paper seeks to examine the outlook of the Serbian Minister in London,
Mateja Mata Bošković, during the first half of the Great War on the South Slav (Yugoslav)
question – a unification of all the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in a single state, which was
Serbia’s war aim. He found himself in close contact with the members of the Yugoslav
Committee, an organisation of the irredentist Yugoslav émigrés from Austria-Hungary
in which two Croat politicians, Frano Supilo and Ante Trumbić, were leading figures. In
stark contrast to other Serbian diplomats, Bošković was not enthusiastic about Yugoslav
unification. He suspected the Croat émigrés, especially Supilo, of pursuing exclusive
Croat interests under the ruse of the Yugoslav programme. His dealings with them were
made more difficult on account of the siding of a group of British “friends of Serbia”, the
most prominent of which were Robert William Seton-Watson and Henry Wickham
Steed, with the Croat émigrés. Though not oppose...d in principle to an integral Yugoslav
unification, Bošković preferred staunch defence of Serbian Macedonia from Bulgarian
ambitions and the acquisition of Serb-populated provinces in southern Hungary, while
in the west he seems to have been content with the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina,
part of Slavonia and an outlet to the Adriatic Sea in Dalmatia. Finally, the reception of
and reaction to Bošković’s reports on the part of the Serbian Prime Minister, Nikola Pašić,
clearly shows that the latter was determined to persist in his Yugoslav policy, despite the
Treaty of London which assigned large parts of the Slovene and Croat lands to Italy and
made the creation of Yugoslavia an unlikely proposition. In other words, Pašić did not
vacillate between the “small” and the “large programme”, between Yugoslavia and Greater
Serbia, as it has been often alleged in historiography and public discourse.
Ključne reči:
Mateja Mata Bošković / Yugoslav Committee / Serbia / Yugoslavia / Nikola Pašić / British (English) friends of Serbia / R. W. Seton-Watson / First World WarIzvor:
Balcanica, 2019, L, 173-215Izdavač:
- Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies SASA
Finansiranje / projekti:
- Istorija političkih ideja i institucija na Balkanu u XIX i XX veku (RS-MESTD-Basic Research (BR or ON)-177011)
Institucija/grupa
Балканолошки институт САНУ / Institute for Balkan Studies SASATY - JOUR AU - Bakić, Dragan PY - 2019 UR - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/7788 AB - This paper seeks to examine the outlook of the Serbian Minister in London, Mateja Mata Bošković, during the first half of the Great War on the South Slav (Yugoslav) question – a unification of all the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in a single state, which was Serbia’s war aim. He found himself in close contact with the members of the Yugoslav Committee, an organisation of the irredentist Yugoslav émigrés from Austria-Hungary in which two Croat politicians, Frano Supilo and Ante Trumbić, were leading figures. In stark contrast to other Serbian diplomats, Bošković was not enthusiastic about Yugoslav unification. He suspected the Croat émigrés, especially Supilo, of pursuing exclusive Croat interests under the ruse of the Yugoslav programme. His dealings with them were made more difficult on account of the siding of a group of British “friends of Serbia”, the most prominent of which were Robert William Seton-Watson and Henry Wickham Steed, with the Croat émigrés. Though not opposed in principle to an integral Yugoslav unification, Bošković preferred staunch defence of Serbian Macedonia from Bulgarian ambitions and the acquisition of Serb-populated provinces in southern Hungary, while in the west he seems to have been content with the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, part of Slavonia and an outlet to the Adriatic Sea in Dalmatia. Finally, the reception of and reaction to Bošković’s reports on the part of the Serbian Prime Minister, Nikola Pašić, clearly shows that the latter was determined to persist in his Yugoslav policy, despite the Treaty of London which assigned large parts of the Slovene and Croat lands to Italy and made the creation of Yugoslavia an unlikely proposition. In other words, Pašić did not vacillate between the “small” and the “large programme”, between Yugoslavia and Greater Serbia, as it has been often alleged in historiography and public discourse. PB - Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies SASA T2 - Balcanica T1 - The Serbian Minister in London, Mateja Bošković, the Yugoslav Committee, and Serbia's Yugoslav Policy in the Great War, 1914-1916 SP - 173 EP - 215 VL - L DO - 10.2298/BALC1950173B UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7788 ER -
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Bakić, D.. (2019). The Serbian Minister in London, Mateja Bošković, the Yugoslav Committee, and Serbia's Yugoslav Policy in the Great War, 1914-1916. in Balcanica Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies SASA., L, 173-215. https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC1950173B https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7788
Bakić D. The Serbian Minister in London, Mateja Bošković, the Yugoslav Committee, and Serbia's Yugoslav Policy in the Great War, 1914-1916. in Balcanica. 2019;L:173-215. doi:10.2298/BALC1950173B https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7788 .
Bakić, Dragan, "The Serbian Minister in London, Mateja Bošković, the Yugoslav Committee, and Serbia's Yugoslav Policy in the Great War, 1914-1916" in Balcanica, L (2019):173-215, https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC1950173B ., https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7788 .