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У раду се на основу стенографских белешки са заседања Дома општина и Дома лордова британског парламента, и литературе разматра став највишег законодавног тела британске империје, али и владе и јавног мњења према југословенском питању и формирању заједничке државе јужнословенских народа у предвечерје завршетка Великог рата. Такође, анализира се и однос британског парламента према новоформираној Краљевини СХС. One can notice two phases in relation of the Great Britain, its parliament, its government and its public towards the Yugoslav question and creation of the joint state of the South Slav peoples during the World War I. Practically, almost until the end of the war, among the most important political spheres of the British empire there was fi rm belief that Austria-Hungary should be kept, i.e. that there was no need to form a separate state of the South Slav communities. Part of the British political elite supported the idea of enlarged Serbia which would include parts of Austria-Hungarian empire such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Syrmia, Slavonia, part of the Adriatic coast. However, a group of intellectuals led by university professor Seton-Watson was also active on the political stage, advocating their opinion that in the post-war “new Europe” survival of Austria-Hungary was not possible, and that on its foundations, among others, a separate state which would include the South Slavs should be built. British war cabinet defi nitely gave up on supporting territorial integrity of Austria-Hungary and accepted the concept of Yugoslav state in the beginning of June 1918. Th e peak of this Copernican turn was the British government’s decision to recognize the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on June 2, 1919. Advocates of the Yugoslav unifi cation also had their supporters among British MPs who were expressing their pro Yugoslav stances during sessions of both Houses of the British Parliament between 1917 and 1920. Among other things, they supported the Corfu declaration, spoke about inevitability of breakup of Austria-Hungarian empire, need of opening of the Macedonian front, and they were most agile when it came to their demands to the British government to recognize the newly-formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes as soon as possible aft er the end of the Great war. Научни скупови / Српска академија наука и уметности ; књ. 192. Одељење историјских наука ; књ. 41 |
