Da Cleveland a Corfù: l’azione dei Comitati Jugoslavi in Europa e nel mondo nella corrispondenza diplomatica italiana, 1915-1917

• Autores: Fabrizio Rudi
• Localización: Nuova rivista storica, ISSN 0029-6236, Vol. 105, Nº. 1, 2021, págs. 143-172
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The main purpose of this essay is a reconstruction of some particular events whichare indeed of considerable importance for the fate of relations between Italy and thesouthern Slavs at the end of the Great War. They concern more or less secret actions,but carefully followed by Italian diplomacy, of the Yugoslavian organizations in theworld, under the moral direction of the Yugoslav Committee (Jugoslovenski Odbor)leaded by Ante Trumbić, and founded, fatally, just four days after the Italian joiningto the Great War: it results, from theresearches done at this goal, that the mostimportant centers of “Yugoslav” propaganda in the world and in Europe were settlednot only in London, Paris and in Florence and, shortly, in Rome, but also in Geneve,in Lausanne, and, out of Europe, in Antofagasta (Chile), and in Washington, Chicagoand Cleveland (Ohio), where, on September 19 th, 1915, the chiefs of the local“Yugoslav” emigration released a declaration, addressed to President Wilson, whosecontents and resolution are quite similar to the ones taken and formalized later, onJuly 20th, 1917, in the more notorious Corfu Declaration: from this particular derivesthe intention to grasp the possible continuity between these two declaration in termsof common action and common direction