The author analyses the role of the »third party« in the case of the relations between the Vatican and the fascist government in »resolving the situation« in the dioceses of Venezia Giulia in the 1930s where the majority of the population was Slovenian and Croatian. After the conclusion of the Concordat of 1929, due to the high impact and important role of the Slovenian and Croatian clergy among the population, the situation in Venezia Giulia was a very sensitive one for the Church and as such demanded a cautious policy. The author illustrates the role of the apostolic visitors (»the third party«), as it appeared in these specific cases and as it transformed from the institute aiming to provide »fair and independent mediation« into its exact opposite – an executor (application instrument) of the decisions already taken by the centres of power (Rome and the Vatican), thus representing only an appearance of independence, neutrality and fairness characteristic of the role of the »third party«.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2444499
Based on several exceptionally wellpreserved cases, this contribution attempts to reconstruct the role of intermediators and the roles which formed in the system of foster care for tackling the demands and wishes of the poor: on the one hand, and the role of the state as the provider of public welfare as an archaic form of social responsibility towards the poor, on the other. The representatives of church institutions in a face-to-face society held the decisive cultural role of intermediary between the authorities and the individual in the18th and well into the 19th centuries, when they not only preserved the traditional roles of protectors of the poor and promoters of charitable activities, but were also assigned numerous new tasks through administrative reforms.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2443987
Employing evidence from local newspapers, images, and archival materials, this article analyzes the consequences that the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 had for the Austrian Littoral. The main focus is the city of Trieste, third largest city in Cisleithania and the most important port in the Monarchy. The widespread mourning was, however, just part of the picture. In the following days Austrian authorities reported - and sentenced people for - many acts of subversive rhetoric and hate speech. Although there were no large-scale riots in the city, several physical and verbal attacks to Triestine Slovenes were reported in the days after the assassination and in the days following Austria-Hungary’s declaration of war on Serbia a month later. These acts open new questions on the relations between national/ethnic affiliation and dynastic loyalty among the local population.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1536273092
The paper analyzes the intense cooperation between the Italian autonomous region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the Austrian region of Carinthia and the Yugoslav republics of Slovenia and Croatia, which increased constantly during the 1960’s and culminated in the establishment of the Working Community Alpe-Adria in 1978. Special emphasis is dedicated to the role and significance of the Slovenian diplomacy in organizing and in the activities of the Working Community. With a transnational methodology, which overcome national paradigms in questioning international relations, the paper analyzes the dynamics of development on a subnational, regional level. The primary research focus is dedicated to the question if we can consider the enrolment of the Slovenian diplomacy in the Working Community Alpe-Adria as an autonomous, national foreign policy. The Slovenian diplomatic activities in the Working Community Alpe-Adria should be considered as an integral part of Yugoslav foreign policy: the successful case of the Working Community Alpe-Adria in overcoming European divisions was the result of both Slovenian and Yugoslav foreign policy.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2444755
Drawing on an analysis of unpublished primary sources held by the British National Archives, this article shows the attempts of the British diplomats to act as mediators in the process of defining the Yugoslav-Italian border after World War I. They had also prepared themselves carefully for the peace conference in Paris in 1919 – British participants at that conference were equipped with a series of secret handbooks on most countries and provinces and on a number of issues presenting a potential threat to post-war peace. In addition to these handbooks outlining the basic historical and socio-political information on individual nations or national groups and their territory and population, economic, climatic, demographic, social and other features. The National Archives also contain a number of other reports from the first post-war period, spanning from late 1918 and the early months of the following year. These reveal how the diplomats of what was then one of the strongest and most powerful empires wanted to be as objective as possible (of course also taking into account its interests) in finding the most efficient solution for maintaining peace and stability between Italy and the new Yugoslav state that would also be the most promising one in terms of economic development.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2444243