Initiation and initiative : an exploration of the life and ideas of Dimitrije Mitrinović

NOTES

Introduction

1. “New Britain Manifestos. The Social State,’ New Britain Quarterly, vol 1, no. 2, Jan-March 1933, p. 53. Emphasis in original.

2. Commemoration meeting, New Europe Group, January 29, 1954.

3. David Davies, Commemoration meeting 1954.

Chapter 1

1. Much of the detail concerning Mitrinovi¢’s early life is taken from Predrag Palavestra, The Dogma and Utopia of Dimitrije Mitrinovic, Belgrade: Sloyo Ljubve, 1977. For this chapter I have drawn upon a private translation of Palavestra’s first chapter, “Conspirator, Prophet or Preacher,” translated by D. Shillan and revised by Dr. E. B. Goy (Archives of New Atlantis Foundation, Ditchling, England). The references use the pagination of this translation.

.2 According to Singleton, “The Serbs inherited one of the richest oral traditions in Europe.” F. Singleton, Twentieth Century Yugoslavia, London: MacMillan, 1976, p. 50.

3. This form of protest was to be adopted in 1908 at the time of the Hapsburg’s formal annexation of Bosnia and Hercegovina. A special mass was held in the Sarajevo Eastern Orthodox Cathedral to celebrate the annexation. It was recorded that, “At the end of the mass, the Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan Letica in his gold and silver vestments, with both hands raised, asked all the worshippers to kneel down and pray for divine blessings for the Emperor Franz Josef and the Hapsburg dynasty. All went down except a group of boys from the high school. They stood firmly upright among their kneeling elders.” Vladimir Dedijer, The Road to Sarajevo, London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1966, p. 208.

4. Quoted, ibid., p. 178.

5. Quoted by Palavestra, op. cit., p. 19.

6. B. Zečević, quoted by Dedijer, op. cit., p. 179.

7. B. Zečević, ibid., p. 180.

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