Attitudes of Croatian political elite towards formation of the Yugoslav state

Sa？etak The article presents and examines attitudes towards formation of the Yugoslav state (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) in 1918 within two groups of Croatian politics. The first one acted abroad, organised in the Yugoslav Committee, led by Frano Supilo and Ante Trumbi？. Without this group, the countries of the Entante would not be well informed about political aspirations and problems of the Croats, Serbs and Slovenes within the Austria-Hungary. They wanted to liberate themselves and to unite in a Yugoslav state with Serbia and Montenegro. The Yugoslav Committe was active in preventing Italian aspirations in Eastern Adriatic, which were based on the London Agreement between Italy and the Entante. The other group was active within the country. It requested unification of all Croatian and Slovenian lands, as well as Bosnia-Herzegovina, in one unit within the Austria-Hungary. As of 1917 the position of this group too moved towards unification with Serbia and Montenegro. The article follows political evolution and attitudes on the issue of unification with Serbs in Yugoslavia by the leading Croatian politicians of the time: Frano Supilo, Ante Trumbi？, Ivan Lorkovi？ and Ante Paveli？ (the dentist, not the Poglavnik of 1941) and Stjepan Radi？