DR. V. MACEK'S FUTURE PLANS

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• Publication Date: January 15, 1947
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I E UG 1' CE REPORT
V-a Itac cs c' a Future Plans
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DATE:
DIST. 13 February 1947
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Dro Vladko Wacekas present personal plans are to remain in Parto until the
and of sumwr 1947 4t that tins, if the Yugoslav situation looks more
hopei'ul fro i his v% soint., and by this he means if the Russian troops are
withdrawn from Austria, Hungary and Rumsnia, he will move, together with
Dr. rax Poso1.J, hj,s accretary, and other members of his entourage to
Vienna or the / rion Zou of Austria, in order to organize and direct
from there the Croat opposition to the Tito goarnrmrienttr Under those aireimi-
starces Dr. lacek feels that the general Yugoalav opposition would have
every chance of audcoas.
In this oomeati.on, VaceIc is of the opinion that Tito's regime ca=Qt be
ove hrmn by domecrai c means but, barring the occurrence of a VAN
world vrar, by a revolution nourished by outside forces. i owever., the
success of such an overthrow depends upon the -withdrawal of the Russian
forces from. itP Eastern European satellite countries, and if Tito's army
is fully mribil&zed the possibilities of success, according to 04061c, are
greater since there 'are many in the aarmr who are discontented.
If, on the other hand, the Russian troops are not withdrawn and the current
situati o-yr m mina unchanged., a cek end his wife and children, together with
Dr. PeselJ, vo.l . plan to go to the United States. Dr. Maeak seem reason-
ably oertain that he will be able to obtain a visitor's or an immigration
visa while Dr. ?esel j on his part is already in possession of an ire igration
visa.,, this h .vine been facilitated by the fact that his wife is an American
citizen.
Dr. M.cak has not yet envisioned. the possibility of appointing authoritative
person or committee Which would continue to represent the Croatian Peasant
Party on the. Continent, and appears at the moment to feel that this is un-
nec sea ry and that ho will be able to maintain his leadership even from the
United States, In this connection, ho has pointed to the preoe ctent established
by Gabe i M im ,trov, Bulgaria Peasant leader now living in the United Start ea.
Dr. Macek appe re to be sompvthat loath'to designate Dr. Juraaj Krnjevich in
London as having fill powers to represent him on the Continent, siuoe he admit
that Dr. Idrn javioh is not trusted by t Serf, pol.itioal leadgri is London or
elsewhere, and does not see eye to .eye nth the more Yugaslav .nded 'eletr, nts
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5. On this subject Meek believes that the Serbs and the Coats are bound to
each other in such a way that they Lwst live together in one nation. The
only chance of success against Tito, he feels, d opends upon a unified
action of all the Yugoslavs. An accord between the Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes abroad is very important and trill have an advantageous roper--
cussion in the homeland, liaook thinks,sinco all the leaders of the opposi-
tion parties are living outside of the country. He also believes that
the recent plan of the Catholic Church to draw Croatia and Slovenia into
a bloc of Catholic States of' entral Europe has been abandoned by the
Vatican and that it novr supports a united Yugoslavia.
6. Concerning the Ustasshi members-in..vxile, lacek stated that a number of them
are abandoning Pavelich and seeking permission to re-enter the Croatian
Peasant Party. Relations with those who have ultra-republican views are
strained, but L4aeek does not look upon them as a dangerous element since
they do not have the support of the people in the country. Haver, Macek
does admit that the resistance group "i rizari" unfortunately has many
Uatashi leaders among them. Althoup;h the activities of tho "Krizari" are
purely on the defensive side, 1 acek believes that they will serve as a
basis for a large scale rebellion.
7. Dr. Iiacek has recently received tie first message from August Kosutich
(vice-president of CPP) in 7agrob since the latter's release from prison. %
This message reached him through the intermediary of Konievich,
a mei ber of the Yugoslav delegation to the Peace Conference, who at that
time broughtDr. Macok a message from Dr. Dragoi jub Jovanovich, and has
now brought the message from Kosutich vihile esu'oute to London as a meter
of the Yugoslav delegation to the current Big Four conference on the German
problem. In hio message Kosutich underscored :hat he believed to be the
futility of continued attempts to influence or modify the character of the
Tito regime through llo-Saxon or other pressures from the --eat, i.e.,
via Russia or neighboring Soviet satellite states.. Dr.:iacek's first
reaction to this note was not favorable. During the early days of his stay
in Paris he attempted to be perfectly correct in his dealings with the
Russians by sanding them copies of any notes which he addressed to repre-
sentatives of the other Allied powers. He has never, however, received
any recognition or response to these gestures.
Be, Dra Maoek has still not received from the British a visitor's visa to the
United Kingdom nor has it proved possible for the Serb leaders in London.
to visit him in Paris to undertake the conferences wish they have boon
plennzsg. Dr. Vila Gavrilovtch and other Sorb politicians in London have
written to Mecok that vile very eager to reach an accord with him, they
do not dare leave the UK since they have no guarantee that they will be
allowed to return. The failure of the British to grant him a visa while
appearing to agree in principle to do so, leads Dr. I"aceh to believe that
the British are continuing to pursue an extremely cautious policy with
regard to Yugoslavia. As another instance of this he cited the recent British
action by which large Croat ship-owners In the UK were forced, following
representations of the Yugoslav govern nt? to turn over all their fir :' ps
and the capital of their companies to the Yugoslav Government as part of
the nationalization of the shipping; industry in Yu. goslcsvia. They received
only 7 to 10;2' of their total capital as reimbursement. 1',Then at' first they
refused to comply, the British gave them to understand that the British
themselves would turn over the ships to the Yugoslav govor;nt and they
would receive no reimbursement whatsoever. Under this pressure the ship-
owners finally cx pitulatod.
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