[I've been looking for Pavelic's writings in English for some time,
throught this might be of interest to the members of this list -
Piers.]
Ante Pavelic
Excerpts from The Croat Question (1936)
A thousand years ago, the Croat people had already chosen the Western
Culture and civilization. Standing on the border between East and
West, it successfully defended this border, despite great sacrifices,
against Byzantine and Turkish attacks in a struggle lasting for
centuries, fighting in its own defense, but also in defense of all
Europe. During these thousand years, the Croats stood on one side and
the Serbs on the other of a frontier which also forms the border
between Western Civilization and the Orient. . . .
The Croats, a people conscious of their thousand-year-old national
individuality, cannot and will not ever give up this individuality,
and will resist unconditionally, with all available means, its
destruction. This Croat life force is a fact which cannot be affected
by any reasons, explanations or arguments, a fact which is
indisputable and not subject to discussion. Thus life itself
demonstrates the falsehood of the arguments of the victors of the
[First] World War. . . .
From the fact that the Croats are an independent ethnic personality
and not a part of a fictitious Yugoslav nation, the other fact
inevitably follows, that the Croats do not accept the contemporary
Yugoslav state but reject it with all determination. This state was
established against the will of the Croat people; the committee of
the Zagreb National Diet which proclaimed the unification of Croatia
and Serbia on 1 December 1918 was never empowered to do so by the
Croat people. Within a few days of this unification, the Croat
resistance had to be suppressed with machine guns. . . . Thus was
Croatia cast into the confusion of a total Balkan chaos, overflowing
with political and private amorality, where disorder and corruption
characterize the normal form of state administration and immorality
is the ideal of private life. . .
The Croat liberation movement demands the reconstruction of a free
and independent Croat state comprising the entire historical and
ethnic territory of the Croat people. It strives for this end because
it corresponds to the will of the whole Croat nation and to its vital
needs, because the Croat nation has an incontrovertible right
thereto, and because no one is empowered to deny it this right under
any pretext whatever. . . .
Principles of the Ustasha Movement (1941)
1. The Croat nation is an independent ethnic entity. It is a nation
in itself, and, in respect of nationality, is not identical with any
other nation, nor is it a tribe or branch of another nation. . . .
9. The Croat nation, taken as a whole, has a right to happiness and
prosperity, and every Croat has the same right as a member of this
whole. This happiness and prosperity can be achieved, either by the
nation as a whole or by the individual as a member of this whole,
only in a fully self-governing and independent Croat state, and
therefore no part of it can ever become, in any form, a component of
another state.
10. In consequence of its sovereign right, the Croat nation must
alone rule in its state and alone decide all state matters and
national concerns.
11. No one not of Croat race and Croat blood may participate in Croat
state and national leadership. Similarly, no foreign state or foreign
nation may decide the fate of the Croat nation and Croat state.
12. The peasantry is the foundation and source of all life, and as
such is the chief vehicle of all state authority in the Croat state.
However, all other classes in Croatia are part of the national whole,
because the other classes of the Croat nation whose members are of
Croat blood have not only their roots and ancestry but also an
unbroken family relationship with the village. Whoever, in Croatia,
is not of peasant descent is, in nine out of ten cases, not of Croat
origin or blood but an immigrant foreigner.
13. All material and spiritual wealth in the Croat State is the
property of the nation, and the latter alone is empowered to dispose
of them and to exploit them. The natural resources of the Croat
fatherland, and especially its forests and mines, cannot be the
object of private trade. The land can only belong to him who
cultivates it himself or with his family, that is, to the
peasant. . .
15. The exercise of all official functions is bound with personal
responsibility. Anyone who conducts any business in the name of the
state or the nation must answer for his actions with his life and his
property. Duty and responsibility before society must also be the
guiding principle of every action in the private life of every member
of the Croat nation.
16. The moral strength of the Croat nation consists in an orderly
family life in accordance with religious principles; its economic
strength lies in agriculture, in its social collective life, and in
the natural wealth of the Croat land; its military strength lies in
its organizational and soldierly qualities. . .
Industry, trade and commerce must cooperate for the benefit of the
whole national economy. These branches must become a field for honest
and honorable work and a source of appropriately dignified life for
the worker, but never a means for accumulating national wealth in the
hands of the capitalists. . . .
The Enemies of the Croat Liberation Movement
1. The Serbian Government
To estimate the difficulties of the Croat liberation struggle, we
must look more closely at the question of its enemies. Here stands in
the first place the Serbian government, which, with all the means at
its disposal, exerting all its powers, strives to destroy the Croat
movement. . . .
** 2. International Freemasonry **
The role played by freemasonry in Yugoslavia is little understood
abroad. But a closer examination of this question shows that all
state power is in the hands of freemasons. During the World War,
freemasonry contrived the establishment of Yugoslavia. For this
purpose, during the war, it organized and supported abroad
the "Yugoslav Committee", which constituted the embryo of
Yugoslavia. . . . As its own creation, international freemasonry has
the Yugoslav state well in hand. From the foundation of the state to
this day, all personalities occupying any important political
position or any administrative position of importance have been lodge
members. The highest patron of the Yugoslav freemasonry is the
Karadjordjevic dynasty, and the king is also, as a rule, the grand
master of the Yugoslav lodges. . . . It goes without saying that both
the Yugoslav and international freemasonry has outlawed and
excommunicated the Croat liberation movement. It tries to ruin any
Croat in the country who is suspected of taking any part, however
small, in the independence movement. Freemasonry does not attack any
of the Croat party politicians who demand Croat autonomy on the basis
of democracy in the framework of a Yugoslav state, because these are
in part themselves connected with Jewry and freemasonry. It acts
exclusively against our independence movement, which is neither
masonic nor democratic, but which fights for the full liberation of
Croatia and for an internal order built on sound nationalistic
principles. . . .
3. The Jews
Today, practically all finance and nearly all commerce in Croatia is
in Jewish hands. This became possible only through the support of the
state, which thereby seeks, on one hand, to strengthen the pro-
Serbian Jews, and on the other, to weaken Croat national strength.
The Jews also celebrated the establishment of the so-called Yugoslav
state with great joy, because a national Croatia could never be as
useful to them as a multi-national Yugoslavia; for in national chaos
lies the power of the Jews. . . . In fact, as the Jews had foreseen,
Yugoslavia became, in consequence of the corruption of official life
in Serbia, a true Eldorado of Jewry. The latter shows its gratitude
for the patronage of Belgrade by using its capital, squeezed out of
the Croat people, against the Croat freedom struggle. . . . The
entire press in Croatia is also in Jewish-masonic hands, because
after the establishment of the military dictatorship in 1929, the
Croat press was prohibited and destroyed. This press serves primarily
to combat the Croat independence movement directly or indirectly, and
also to misrepresent abroad the popular feeling in Croatia. . . .
4. Communism
Communism has not been able to penetrate wider layers of Croat
society. Nevertheless, the Belgrade government has sent a large
number of communist-infected Serbian students to attend the Croat
university in Zagreb at the cost of the state. Together with the
Jews, these students spread communist propaganda in Croatia,
demonstrate at every opportunity and try to falsify before the
outside world the true position of the Croat nationalist student
body. . . .
Furthermore, the Comintern has adopted the fully justified standpoint
that bolshevik aims will be far more easily achieved in an
unconsolidated and corrupt Yugoslavia, disrupted by Serb-Croat
struggle, than in a nationally homogeneous Croat state, whose
national solidarity, sound peasantry, strong Central European
cultural tradition, and historical mission as the bulwark of the West
against the Orient would also make it a barrier against bolshevism.
Therefore the Communists work for the survival of the Yugoslav state,
and attack our independence movement with unexampled hatred. . . .
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