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...Zagreb there was proclaimed the restoration of the Crown of Zvonimir, which rested on the heads of Croatian Kings and now returns to represent the sovereignty of the Independent State of Croatia...
...Crown of Zvonimir was named for one Demetrius Zvonimir, who was crowned by a papal legate in Split in 1076. In 1089 the Croats killed him because they thought he had sold out to Rome. The 13 years of Zvonimir's rule were those of Croatia's broadest boundaries. The kingdom had an Adriatic coastline running from Fiume to Split and thrust inland almost to Belgrade. Croatian provincials have never forgotten that. Said the nationalistic Croatiapress in 1937: "Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Slavonia and Croatia ... are pure Croatian provinces and the Croatian people have the sole right to them...
This rule rigidly defined the Nazis' plan of action in the Balkans: cut Yugoslavia from Greece, pro-Nazi Croatia from anti-Nazi Serbia, pregnable Thrace from defensible central Greece, the tough Greeks from the tough British...
...Croatia. No sooner had the Hitler juggernaut rumbled across the northern Croatian plains of Yugoslavia than the formation of an "independent" Croatia was announced, its capital at Zagreb, second to Belgrade among Yugoslav cities. The announcer was a Quisling worthy of the name. He was dark, treacherous Ante Pavelitch, leader of the terroristic Ustashi, a band of rapacious Croat schemers who for years have hated the Serbs, Jews and Croatia's own peasants and plotted with Italian, Hungarian and German money to split Yugoslavia and bring the Ustashi to power...
After this deed Ante Pavelitch took refuge in Italy, which refused to expel him for French trial. He was sentenced to death in absentia. Last week he proclaimed himself first President of the new Croatia, including Bosnia. Herzegovina, Dalmatia and the old Croat Province. He named as his Premier his fellow Terrorist Slavko Kvaternik. Balkan experts tended to discount as propaganda rumors that the venerable Croat Peasant Leader Vladimir Matchek had sided with the peasant-haters...