It can help to make impossible the dream of
mid-Europe or of Pan-Germany.
The Jugo-Slav movement has ended in the formation of a nation which is
neither a doctrine, nor a dream, but a reality.
APPENDICES DECLARATION OF THE JUGO-SLAV CLUB OF THE AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT
ON MAY 30, 1917
"The undersigned deputies, assembled as the 'Jugo-slav Club,' taking their
stand on the principle of nationalities and on the rights of the Croatian
state, declare that they demand that all the countries in which Slovenes,
Croats, and Serbs live shall be united in an independent and democratic
state organism, free from the domination of any foreign nation and placed
under the sceptre of the dynasty Habsburg-Lorraine. They declare that they
will employ all their forces to realize this demand of their single nation.
The undersigned will take part in the parliamentary labor after having made
this reserve...."
[Footnote: Referring to the Declaration of the Jugo-Slav Club, May 30,
1917, in the Vienna Parliament J. J. Grgurevich, Secretary of the South
Slavic National Council, Washington, D. C., writes:
"In order to understand correctly this Declaration, it is necessary to
state that the same was presented in the Vienna Parliament during war time,
when each, even the most innocent, word in regard to rights, principles of
nationality, and liberty of peoples, was considered and punished as a crime
and treason, by imprisonment, even death.
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