"WHY CROATIA DID NOT JOIN THE UNITED NATIONS"

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: CROATIAN CATHOLIC UNION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005629728
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2011-00582
• Publication Date: October 9, 1944

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9 October 1944
, 'WHY CROATIA DID NOT JOIN THE UNITED NATIONS"
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THE Akron, Ohio Mas Nada (3 October) printed in English an
editorial entitled "Help Others Understand the Croatian Dilemma."
Nasa !4& is the organ of th -Croatian Catholic Union and a
defender of the Croatian quisling, Ante Pavelich. The editorial
quoted from an article in the Catholic weeklJry\ r S nda Vis to
of 17 September. This article, asserted Nasa Nadi, showed an
understanding of "the situation in which the Croatians find
themselves." The substance of the article as quoted by Naha
Nada follows:
After-the First World War Austria-Hungary was divided into
small parts and "millions of homogeneous people" were placed
among other nationals whom they disliked. To Austria, Hitler's
National Socialism seemed far better than the Communism and
Socialism the people had lived through. Similarly, Hungary had
not resisted Hitler because Germany had promised to restore to
it Transylvania, "where 2,000,000 Hungarians were living against
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their will amid Rumanians, whose language and predominant
religion were different.."
Four million Croatians She quoted article continue
who had formerly lived under Hungarian rule, were forced
into Yugoslavia to be governed by the Serbs, for whom
they had little love. This explains why'Croatia did not
follow the balance of Yugoslavia into a partnership with
the United Nations. It was not because its people loved
Hitler or Nazism, but because, like the Hungarians and
Auaf,~,tans, they remembered Versailles too well.
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